The NTB Prosecutor's Office Has Not Yet Made A Detention After Determining 4 New Suspects Of Corruption KUR BSI

The West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) High Prosecutor's Office (Kejati). (Between)

NTB - The West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) High Prosecutor's Office (Kejati) has named four new suspects in the alleged corruption case in the distribution of people's business credit funds (KUR) at Bank Syariah Indonesia (BSI) in 2021-2022.

The four suspects are offtakers with the initials M, MS, MSZ, and DR.

"These four additional suspects are offtaker (community production collectors) from the 2021-2022 KUR distribution process," said NTB Prosecutor's Office Spokesperson Efrien Saputera in Mataram, Wednesday, August 14, as reported by Antara.

He said the NTB Prosecutor's Office had not yet detained the four, including the two suspects who had previously been named.

Assistant for Special Crimes (Aspidsus) of the NTB Prosecutor's Office, Elly Rahmawati, previously revealed that the first two suspects were the main officials in two branches of work at the NTB BSI area. Both have the initials SE and WKI.

"So, from the two investigations we carried out, the role of SE was the main official in one branch, and this WKI was from another branch. They are suspected of abusing their authority in the distribution of KUR funds," said Elly.

Although he was reluctant to convey in full the two branches of BSI's work that were included in the prosecutor's investigation, Elly ensured that the alleged corruption was related to the distribution of KUR funds to farmer groups that produce porang and cattle in the NTB area.

"Anyway, there are irregularities, some are fictitious, some are not, they are related (KUR funds) to cows and porang," he said.

Elly said that in determining the suspect, investigators had found indications of unlawful acts and potential state financial losses.

"For distribution in Mataram, there was a loss of Rp. 8.3 billion. The other branch, an indication of a loss of Rp. 13 billion. Just to be sure, wait for the results of the BPKP," he said.

To find out the value of the loss, Elly said that his party had collaborated with the NTB Representative Financial and Development Supervisory Agency (BPKP).

"Because the articles that we suspect against the two suspects are related to articles 2 and 3 of the Anti-Corruption Law, so we must fulfill the elements of state financial losses by coordinating and intensively providing data to BPKP auditors," he said.