Rock Climbing Trainer And Head Of Finance Section Examined By Attorney General's Office For Corruption Cases KONI Grant Funds

Kapuspenkum AGO Leonard Eben Ezer Simanjuntak/ANTARA

JAKARTA - Investigators of the Deputy Attorney General for Special Crimes at the Attorney General's Office examined two witnesses related to the investigation into the alleged corruption case of government funding assistance to the Central National Sports Committee (KONI) at the Ministry of Youth and Sports for the 2017 fiscal year.

"Today, the investigating prosecutor's team is examining two witnesses who are suspected of knowing the flow of money or government aid funds to the Central KONI in the 2017 fiscal year," said the Head of the Legal Information Center (Kapuspenkum) at the Attorney General's Office, Leonard Eben Ezer Simanjuntak, quoted by Antara, Thursday, June 10.

The two witnesses are the hospital as the sports coach of rock climbing. The witness was examined related to the misuse of Central KONI funds and EP as the Head of Finance at Central KONI.

"The two witnesses were examined in relation to the misuse of Central KONI funds," said Leonard.

The examination of witnesses, said Leonard, is to provide information for the purpose of investigating a criminal case that the witness himself heard, saw and experienced himself in order to find legal facts about corruption that occurred to the Central KONI at the Indonesian Ministry of Youth and Sports for the 2017 fiscal year.

Previously, as many as 155 witnesses and two experts had been examined in the investigation of this case out of the 715 people planned to be examined as witnesses. In this case, the investigating prosecutor has also confiscated 253 documents and letters.

He said the total state loss in this case is still in the process of calculating the BPK.

The examination of the witnesses followed up on the results of a review by the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) as stated in a letter dated May 8, 2020 requesting additional examinations to be carried out to explore irregularities that occurred in the provision of Central KONI funding assistance in 2017.

The case began when the government through the Ministry of Youth and Sports provided financial assistance to Central KONI in the amount of Rp. 25 billion in December 2017 to finance the mentoring, supervision and monitoring program for the national sports achievement improvement program towards the 2018 Asian Games.

In its implementation, it is suspected that there were irregularities in the use and management of funds carried out by elements of the Ministry of Youth and Sports and elements of the Central KONI by making fictitious reports and procuring goods and services without auction procedures which resulted in state losses.