BI CSR Fund Allegedly Misappropriated By Commission XI, KPK Investigate Motives And Flows Of Funds

Director of Investigation of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Brigadier General Asep Guntur (Tsa Tsia/VOI)

JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) will explore the motive for providing social responsibility funds (CSR) by Bank Indonesia (BI) to Commission XI of the DPR RI which was eventually corrupted.

This was conveyed by the Director of Investigation of the KPK, Asep Guntur Rahayu, who initially explained that investigators were investigating allegations of corruption in the use of BI CSR funds. According to him, in the future investigation will be carried out to find out the motive behind the gift.

"Of course (it will be investigated, ed). We want to see this as a whole," Asep told reporters at the KPK's Merah Putih building, Kuningan Persada, South Jakarta, quoted Wednesday, April 23.

"The current use of BI CSR funds received by Commission XI DPR RI for the 2019-2024 period is indeed being checked," explained Asep. So far, there have been findings that its use is not appropriate and has changed shape.

"Well, we check this one by one. Is it true, for example, this is for 50 uninhabitable houses (because, red) in reality what we found was not all built but only 8 or 10," he said.

"Then where are the 40, yes that was, the 40 in the form of money was not built by the house. Finally bought the property. Only one was caught, only like that," continued Asep.

Previously reported, the KPK is investigating allegations of corruption in the Social Responsibility Fund (CSR) of Bank Indonesia (BI). The investigation uses a general investigation warrant (sprindik) signed in the third week of December 2024.

There is no name in the regulation yet. However, two people or even more have the potential to be charged after a search was carried out at the Bank Indonesia office to the Financial Services Authority (OJK) on Monday night, December 16, 2024.

In this case, the KPK has also examined a number of parties. Among them are DPR member of the NasDem Party faction Satori and Member of the DPR Gerindra Party faction Heri Gunawan.

Investigators have also searched Satori's house in the Cirebon area, West Java. From the search process, investigators found documents allegedly related to the alleged corruption of BI's CSR funds.

Then investigators also searched Heri Gunawan's house. From this forced attempt, evidence was found such as documents.