Riau Education Office Head Suspect Of Smiling Corruption When Taken To Detention Car

Head of the Riau Education Office (Kadisdik) Tengku Fauzan Tambusai when he was about to be taken to the Sialang Bungkuk Detention Center. (ANTARA/Annisa Firdausi)

PeKANBARU - Riau High Prosecutor's Office (Kejati) has named the Head of the Riau Province Education Office (Kadisdik) Tengku Fauzan Tambusai as a suspect and immediately detained him for alleged corruption in his previous position as Secretary of the Riau DPRD Council.

Head of the Legal Information and Public Relations Section of the Riau Prosecutor's Office, Bambang Heripurwanto, explained this regarding irregularities in the processing of Riau Regional Revenue and Expenditure Secretariat funds for the period September-December 2022. Fauzan at that time served as Acting Secretary of the Riau DPRD.

"After being examined and carried out a case title, investigators concluded that there were allegations of corruption in budget management irregularities at the Riau DPRD secretariat during that period," said Bambang as quoted by ANTARA, Wednesday, May 15.

Fauzan was seen wearing a white shirt and a smiling orange vest before entering the car that took him to the Sialang Bungkuk Detention Center, Pekanbaru. He was detained for the next 20 days.

He is suspected of violating Article 2 of Law Number 20 of 2001 for amendments to Law Number 31 of 1999 concerning the eradication of criminal acts of corruption. Bambang conveyed that the Special Crime Team (Pidsus) of the Riau Attorney General's Office named TFT as a suspect after the sufficient two pieces of evidence for this case.

The mode is by making a fictitious trip. Fauzan as the Acting Secretary of Riau ordered his subordinates to prepare an accountability document for official activities for the October-December 2022 period.

The documents requested to be prepared are official notes, assignment orders (SPBD), receipts, official travel disbursement notes, transportation fund transfer warrants, 'boarding passes', and hotel bills. After all the documents were collected, the TFT as the budget user signed the accountability document.

"TFT also ordered K as the implementing officer of activity engineering (PPTK) and MAS as the treasurer of expenditure to submit to Bank Riau Kepri without going through the Kasubag verification," said Bambang.

After the official travel money goes to the account of the employee whose name is painted on this fictitious journey, each disbursement is deducted by IDR 1.5 million. It is given to the name of the employee who is used as a signature wage.

"The rest, after being given disbursement to the profited name, as much as Rp. 2.3 billion was received by TFT. This money is used for his personal interests," he said.

Head of the Investigation Section of the Riau Prosecutor's Office, Iman Khilman, added that so far nine people have been investigated for this case. However, until now the suspect is still one person.