OKU Prosecutor's Office Transports 1 Box Document To Complement Evidence Of Corruption Cases At BPBD

The OKU Kejari Investigation Team conducted a search at the OKU BPBD Office, Thursday (25/7/2024). BETWEEN/Edo Purmana.

OKU - The Investigating Team of the District Attorney's Office (Kejari) of Ogan Komering Ulu (OKU) Regency, South Sumatra, conducted a search at the local Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) Office to complete the evidence for the alleged corruption case being handled. Head of the Special Crimes Section of the OKU Kejari, Yerry Tri Mulyawan, explained that the corruption case handled was the use of the expenditure budget for goods and services at BPBD OKU for the 2022 budget year. The search was carried out based on an order from the Head of the Ogan Komering Ulu District Attorney Number: Print-496/L.6.13/Fd.1/07/2024 and the Determination of Deputy Chairperson of the Baturaja District Court Number: 191/PenPid.B-GLD/2024/PN.Bta. "When the investigative team asked about the location of the 2022 archive storage, a number of employees at the OKU BPBD had difficulty showing on the pretext of changing employees," he said in Baturaja, Antara, Thursday, July 25. However, he said, the Prosecutor's Office team managed to find a box containing documents that were brought to be used as evidence in the case. In addition to carrying a box of documents, the OKU Kejari investigating team also conducted an examination of four units of official vehicles belonging to the OKU BPBD. "This search is to add evidence to the trial regarding the determination of the two suspects, namely AK and JN some time ago," he said. Previously, the OKU Kejari Investigation Team named two suspects in the alleged corruption case in the use of the 2022 budget and services. The two suspects are AK as Head of BPBD OKU for the 2022 period who now serves as Head of the OKU Industry and Trade Office and JN who is the Treasurer at BPDB OKU in 2022. The determination of the suspect was carried out based on the Investigation Order of the Head of the OKU District Attorney: PRINT – 01/L.6.13/Fd.1/03/2024 dated March 14, 2024 and extended with SPRINTDIK Number: PRINT-01.a/L.6.13/Fd.1/06/2024 dated June 7, 2024. OKU Chief Prosecutor Choirun Parapat said that based on the results of the examination of the suspect, the investigative team found two sufficient pieces of evidence based on Article 184 of the Criminal Procedure Code to determine the party most responsible in this case. He explained that in this case the two suspects were strongly suspected of jointly committing corruption in the 2022 BPBD budget management which resulted in state finances reaching around Rp428 million more. According to him, the alleged corruption was carried out by misappropriating the use of the budget, both fictitiously and activities that were not completed or not supported by a valid accountability report included in the Sub-Division of Operational Expenditures and Sub-Division of Goods and Services (DPA BPBD 2022). "Based on the calculation of the audit by the OKU Inspectorate, it was found that the amount of state financial losses was IDR 428,397,237," he said.

He said the two suspects would be charged with Article 2 Paragraph (1), Article 3, Article 9 in conjunction with Article 18 Paragraph (1) letters a, b, Paragraph 2 and (3) of Law Number 31 of 1999 concerning the eradication of criminal acts of corruption as amended and renewed by Law Number 20 of 2001 concerning amendments to Law Number 31 of 1999 concerning the eradication of criminal acts of corruption. "We have entrusted the two suspects to the Class IIB Baturaja Detention Center for further processing," said Choirun.