KPK Confiscates IDR 54 Billion Related To Alleged Corruption In Bank EDC Procurement

Iustration of the KPK building in Kuningan, South Jakarta. (Between)

The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) confiscated tens of billions of rupiah related to allegations of corruption in the procurement of electronic data capture (EDC) machines for state-owned banks today, September 25. The money is a return from the vendor who got the project.

"Investigators have confiscated Rp54 billion again," said KPK spokesman Budi Prasetyo to reporters in a written statement, Thursday, September 25.

Budi said that investigators had made this forced effort. On August 13, he announced that Rp10 billion was confiscated from the private sector.

Previously reported, the KPK announced five suspects in alleged corruption in the procurement of EDC machines. They are Catur Budi Harto who is the former Deputy Director of a state-owned bank; Indra Utoyo who is the former Director of Information Technology Digital (ICT) and Operations of the same state-owned bank as well as the former Managing Director of Allo Bank; and Dedi Sunardi who is the SEVP Management of Activatement and Procurement.

Meanwhile, the private sector designated is Elvizar, who is the former Director of PT Pacific Cipta Solusi and Rudi Suprayudi from PT Bringin Inti Teknologi. Even so, the five of them have not been detained.

The procurement of EDC machines at one of the state-owned banks in the 2020-2024 period used a broken and rental purchase scheme. The amount of procurement of EDC machines in the buy and break scheme for the 2020-2023 period reached 346,838 units with a budget of Rp942,794,220,000.

Meanwhile, the rental scheme was carried out twice, namely in 2020 for three years at once until 2023 and 2023 for the extension of 2024-2026. The total budget reached IDR 1,258,550,510,487 with a total EDC for merchant needs of 200,067 units.

For the buy-out scheme, the state losses incurred reached Rp241,065,269,129. Meanwhile, the rental scheme made the state lose up to Rp503,475,105,185.