Corruption Of Customer Money, Bank Employees In Karangasem Sentenced To 14 Months In Prison

The Panel of Judges at the Denpasar Corruption Court read out the verdict against the defendant Noviyanti in the case of corruption in customer money in Denpasar, Bali, Tuesday (30/7/2024). ANTARA/Rolandus Nampu

The panel of judges at the Corruption Court at the Denpasar District Court (PN), Bali, sentenced an employee of Bank Karangasem, Bali, Noviyanti (29) to imprisonment for 1 year and 2 months in a case of corruption in customer money.

In the verdict read at the PNDenpasar, Judge I Wayan Suarta stated that the defendant Noviyanti was legally and convincingly proven guilty of committing a criminal act of corruption as regulated and threatened with crime in Article 3 Juncto Article 18 paragraph (1) of the Law of the Republic of Indonesia Number 20 of 2001 concerning the Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption as stated in the Subsidiary Indictment of the Public Prosecutor.

"The trial, sentenced Noviyanti to imprisonment for 1 year and 2 months, and to pay a fine of Rp. 50 million, provided that if she is not paid, she will be replaced with 3 months in prison," said the panel of judges, Tuesday, July 30.

Reported by ANTARA, in addition to corporal punishment, the defendant was also required to pay compensation of Rp. 382,105,000, provided that if the defendant did not pay the replacement money no later than 1 month after the Court's decision obtained permanent legal force, then his property could be confiscated by the Prosecutor and auctioned off to cover the replacement money.

In the event that the defendant does not have sufficient assets to pay the replacement money, he will be replaced with a substitute imprisonment of 1 year.

The judge's decision was 10 months lower than the demands of the Karangasem Public Prosecutor, previously the Public Prosecutor (JPU) Robetus Deka Nanda Arwinsta and his friends charged the defendant with imprisonment for 2 years with a fine of Rp. 50 million, subsidiary to 3 months in prison.

Based on the judge's decision, the prosecutor and the defendant's legal adviser stated that they accepted.

In the previous prosecutor's indictment, it was revealed that the defendant Noviyanti, a woman from the Belong Environment, Karangasem who worked at the Amlapura Branch BUMN Bank who served as Junior Associate Mantri in Unit Abang, committed corruption which caused state losses to reach Rp453,444,000, with a series of irregularities in customer funds.

The deviation by the defendant Noviyanti occurred from March 2022 to May 2023. He is suspected of embezzling installments and repayment of loans from 16 customers with a total of Rp. 188,444,000. The defendant used the money for personal purposes.

In addition, the defendant Noviyanti returned the credit collateral without following official procedures by taking the collateral himself from the Briman room without the approval of the Customer Service and the Head of the Unit.

Noviyanti was also involved in the creation and disbursement of mask credit or quick credit on behalf of eight of her customers with a total of Rp68 million, where in her actions the defendant pretended to ask for a new ATM by Customer Service (CS) on the pretext that the customer asked for it, but it turned out that all the funds disbursed to the new ATM were enjoyed by himself.

In addition, he also took funds from accounts of three customers worth Rp197 million without the victim's knowledge, with the mode of offering temporary blocking and promised an attractive gift after the blocking was completed.

In fact, what the defendant did was to block the customer's account and take its contents so that customers suffered material losses.

After an internal regional audit was carried out, Bank BUMN found state losses of Rp. 382,105,000. The audit results report is contained in No: SR.10/RA-DPS/RAS/10/2023 dated 27 October 2023. As a result of his actions, Noviyanti was dismissed from her position as Mantri Unit Abang in May 2023 and as a permanent worker of Bank BUMN in October 2023.