Corruption Of IDR 2.63 Billion Grant Funds, Prosecutor's Office Detains Former Treasurer Of KONI Samarinda

Former General Treasurer of KONI Samarinda City with the initials NS (three from the left) after being questioned by the Samarinda District Attorney's Office, East Kalimantan (ANTARA)

The Samarinda District Attorney's Office (Kejari) in East Kalimantan (Kaltim) has arrested one suspect with the initials NS, a former General Treasurer of the Indonesian National Sports Committee (KONI) Samarinda City, in connection with the corruption of grant funds that cost the state finances Rp. 2.63 billion.

"The NS suspect was detained in connection with the alleged corruption crime (Tipikor) of misuse of grant funds from the Samarinda City Government to KONI Samarinda in 2016," said Samarinda Kejari Head Firmansyah Subhan in Samarinda, Thursday.

The suspect is suspected of committing acts of abusing the authority, opportunity or facilities that exist to him, namely related to the position or position of the suspect as the General Treasurer of KONI Samarinda City in 2016.

From this abuse, it has benefited oneself or others, resulting in a loss of state finances of IDR 2.63 billion, based on results by the audit team Number PE 03.03/SR-436/PW17/5/2023 dated March 13, 2023.

"The suspect is currently being detained for 20 days at the Class IIA Samarinda State Detention Center (Rutan) from July 3 to July 22, 2024. The suspect is threatened with five years in prison or more," said Firmansyah through Kasi Intel Erfandy Rusdy Quiliem.

The detention was carried out by the Public Prosecutor (JPU) to speed up the case prosecution process, and based on the provisions of Article 21 Paragraph (1) and Paragraph (4) of the Criminal Procedure Code, because it was feared that the suspect would run away, destroy and destroy evidence.

He continued, in this case the suspect's actions were suspected of violating the primary Article 2 paragraph (1) in conjunction with Article 18 of Law Number 31/1999 concerning the Eradication of Corruption, as amended and supplemented by Law Number 20/2001 concerning Amendments to Law Number 31/1999 concerning Eradication of Corruption in conjunction with 55 paragraph (1) 1st of the Criminal Code in conjunction with Article 64 paragraph (1) of the Criminal Code.

Then the subsidiary Article 3 in conjunction with Article 18 of Law Number 31/1999 concerning the Eradication of Corruption as amended and added to Law Number 20/2001 concerning Amendments to Law Number 31/1999 concerning Eradication of Corruption in conjunction with 55 Paragraph (1) 1st of the Criminal Code in conjunction with Article 64 Paragraph (1) of the Criminal Code.