There Is An Allegation Of Corruption In The COVID-19 Budget In The City Of Bima, The NTB Prosecutor's Office Intervenes

Spokesperson for the NTB Prosecutor's Office Dedi Irawan/ Antara

MATARAM - The West Nusa Tenggara High Prosecutor's Office is investigating allegations of irregularities in the management of the Bima City COVID-19 budget for 2020.

Spokesperson for the NTB Prosecutor's Office, Dedi Irawan, said the alleged irregularities emerged based on public reports.

"As a follow-up, we are reviewing the report. This stage is currently underway in the field of intelligence," said Dedi in Mataram, quoted by Antara, Wednesday, September 1.

Related to this, Dedi said that the intelligence team conducted a study by starting to collect data and information. Therefore, the agenda of clarifying the relevant parties and going to the field is included in the initial handling series.

"But we will go down there (Bima City) when the PPKM is finished," he said.

In his report, allegations of irregularities arose related to budget inflation in a number of goods expenditure items. There are also reports of alleged cuts in incentives for health workers (nakes). The reporter confirmed his suspicions by including the potential loss to the state which amounted to Rp. 2.5 billion.

The Bima City Government in 2020 has allocated a budget for handling COVID-19 worth IDR 28 billion. The revolving budget to the Bima City Health Office reached Rp. 8.4 billion.

The realization of the COVID-19 handling budget, which had to go through an auction process and an electronic catalog, was used for the cost of making coffins, curing corpses, operations for picking up COVID-19 patients, patient medicines, disinfecting public areas, incentives for health workers and the surveillance team. contact tracing".