Police Collaborate With BPKP To Search State Losses In The NTB Bansos Rice Corruption Case

Central Lombok Police Headquarters. (ANTARA/HO-Central Lombok Police)

The Central Lombok Resort Police (Polres) is collaborating with the West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) Representative Financial and Development Supervisory Agency (BPKP) to trace potential state losses in the alleged corruption case of distributing social assistance (bansos) rice in Pandan Indah and Barabali villages.

Head of the Central Lombok Police Public Relations Section, Police Inspector One Lalu Brata Kusnadi, said the results of the search from BPKP would be the basis for investigators to determine the direction of handling the case.

"So, if there are results with BPKP, a title will be carried out to determine the continuation of the handling of the case," said Lalu when contacted from Mataram, Friday, June 7, quoted by Antara.

In addition to tracing the strengthening of evidence from auditors, Lalu Brata said that his party also asked for the opinion of criminal experts and Bulog.

"For experts, we have scheduled it, we are just waiting for information," he said.

In handling the case currently underway at the investigation stage, the Mataram Police Satreskrim Team has found a number of evidences that lead to criminal charges, namely social assistance rice sacks, both containing and empty. The evidence was confiscated from the two villages.

For Panda Indah Village, the police confiscated 89 sacks of social assistance containing rice and 391 sacks of social assistance empty. In the planning, the assistance will be handed over to 1,497 government aid recipients (PBP).

However, in the field, the number of recipients decreased to 923 people. There are allegations of misappropriation of more than 500 sacks of social assistance.

Meanwhile, for Barabali Village, 303 sacks of social assistance containing rice and 96 sacks of empty social assistance along with receipts for rice payments worth Rp. 35.4 million. In Barabali Village, there was a cut in rations for 403 recipients.

From the report, the motive for this alleged misappropriation is related to personal needs, one of which is for holiday allowances.