South Sulawesi Prosecutor's Office Detains New Suspect In Bulukumba Bank Credit Corruption Case

Head of the Legal Information Section of the South Sulawesi Prosecutor's Office, Soetarmi (central) accompanied by investigators at the Special Crimes during the expsos of the corruption case of the BUMN bank in the Bulukumba Regency branch area, at the Makassar Prosecutor's Office, South Sulawesi. (ANTARA)

MAKASSAR - Investigators from the South Sulawesi High Prosecutor's Office (Kejati) have again named and detained a new suspect, namely a woman with the initials KK, for the alleged corruption case (Tipikor) granting credit or loans to a state-owned bank in Bulukumba Regency for the period 2021-2023.

"Investigators have detained the KK suspect for 20 days, from October 25 to November 13, 2025 at the Makassar City Class 1 State Detention Center," said Head of the Legal Information Section of the South Sulawesi Prosecutor's Office, Soetarmi, quoted by Antara, Sunday, October 26.

Soetarmi explained that in this case, the KK was strongly suspected of being involved with suspect R, who had been detained on October 24, 2025 and suspect HA, allegedly as the initiator of the case, had also been detained on September 2, 2025.

"For the modus operandi, the suspect deliberately used the identity (name and customer business). The proceeds from the credit disbursement were then used in part or entirely by these three suspects, KK, R, and HA," said Soetarmi.

In addition, the suspects did not deposit the payment and or installments of customer payments to the Bulukumba BUMN bank, so the payment was not included in the bank system. The money was used and enjoyed by the suspects for personal gain.

From the actions of these suspects, they have abused the payment of credit installments, credit repayment, and the proceeds of disbursement of customer credit at state-owned banks in Bulukumba Regency from 2021-2023.

"As a result of the actions of the suspects, the state-owned bank in Bulukumba Regency suffered a loss of more than Rp. 3.86 billion," said Soetarmi.

The suspects violated the provisions of criminal primaries and subsidies of Article 2 paragraph 1 and Article 3 Jo. Article 18 of Law Number 31 of 1999 concerning Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption as amended by Law Number 20 of 2001 Jo. article 55 paragraph 1 1 of the Criminal Code.

Soetarmi emphasized that the investigative team will continue to explore and develop the possibility of other suspects. He appealed to the witnesses to be cooperative in attending the examination and not to make efforts to obstruct, eliminate, or damage evidence.

"The Investigative Team will immediately carry out investigative actions in the form of confiscation, search, blocking and tracing of money and assets to accelerate the filing and transfer of cases to the Corruption Court," he stressed.