Witness: Mbak Ita's Husband Leaked The Semarang Bapenda ToMorized By The KPK

Head of the Semarang City Bapenda Tax Data Collection and Registration Division, Binawan Febrianto, was examined as a witness during a trial at the Semarang Corruption Court, Wednesday (9/7/2025). (ANTARA/IC Senjaya)

SEMARANG - Head of the Regional Revenue Agency (Bapenda) of the Regional Revenue and Registration Division (Bapenda) of Semarang City, Binawan Febrianto, said that Arwin Basri, the husband of the former Mayor of Semarang, had given a leak about the tax management institution in the Central Java capital which had become the target of the KPK operation (TO).

"January 2024 Pak Alwin was angry, saying 'you are being 'TO KPK'," said Binawan when questioned as a witness in the trial of the alleged corruption case of former Mayor of Hevearita G Rahayu alias Mbak ita at the Semarang Corruption Court, Wednesday, July 9.

According to him, Arwin Basri said that the Semarang City Bapenda was no longer sterile and had been leaked.

He said the leak in question was related to giving money to the Mayors of Hevearita GRahayu and Alwin Basri, which came from the joint contributions of Bapenda employees of Semarang City.

Witness Binawan confirmed the provision of additional operational rations to Hevearita GRahayu for a total of IDR 1.2 billion.

The awards occurred in the fourth quarter of 2022, respectively, and in the first, second, and third quarters of 2023.

Meanwhile, the allotment for Alwin Basri, which totaled Rp. 1 billion, was handed over in July, twice in October, and November 2024.

"The December 2023 ration has actually been prepared, but has not been given. Pak Alwin asked to be stored first because there is still a KPK," he said in the trial chaired by the Chief Judge Gatot Sarwadi.

In January 2024, he continued, Alwin Basri had time to collect the ungiven allotment before finally being angry because the case had been leaked to the KPK

Regarding this testimony, Alwin Basri, who is also a defendant in the alleged corruption, did not object.