Kolaka - The Kolaka District Attorney's Office (Kejari) has named three suspects in a case of alleged corruption in the misuse of rehabilitation assistance for victims of natural disasters at the East Kolaka Housing, Settlement, and Land Office, Southeast Sulawesi, in the 2023 fiscal year.
Head of the Kolaka District Attorney's Office, Romadu Novelino, said the three suspects who were appointed were initials MIB as Head of the Office as well as the Commitment Maker Official (PPK) at the East Kolaka Housing, Residential Area and Land Office in 2023.
Then the other suspect is HA as the person in charge of nine swakelola activities to rehabilitate the houses of victims of natural disasters, and the initials A as the person in charge of four swakelola activities to rehabilitate the houses of victims of natural disasters.
Novelino explained that in the 2023 fiscal year, the East Kolaka Regency Government allocated a BTT budget of Rp. 10.91 billion, of which Rp. 4.31 billion was realized by the local Housing, Settlement Areas and Land Agency to carry out 12 self-management activities to rehabilitate houses for victims of natural disasters.
Based on the results of the investigation, the prosecutor's team found evidence of illegal acts in the implementation of the activity.
"The modus operandi carried out by the suspects, among others, the preparation of the cost budget plan (RAB) without real price surveys, manipulation of the expenditure note, to the forgery of the store's stamp and signature," he said as quoted by ANTARA, Tuesday, May 19.
Novelino revealed that based on the results of the audit of the calculation of state financial losses, the actions of the suspects resulted in state losses of IDR 686.8 million.
The three suspects were detained by the investigating prosecutor for 20 days starting from May 18, 2026 until June 6, 2026 based on a detention order issued on May 18, 2026.
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