Waiting For The Arrival Of Ibn Khajar, Ahyudin And Colleagues At Criminal Investigation Unit Of The Police After Suspect Status, Will They Be Detained?

JAKARTA - The Criminal Investigation Unit of the National Police has scheduled an examination of four suspects in the alleged misappropriation of donations from the Aksi Cepat Tanggap (ACT) organization today, Friday, July 29.

Those examined were Ibn Khjar, Ahyudin, Novariadi Imam Akbari, and Hariyana Hermain. An investigation will also be conducted to determine the related detention.

"The examination is at 13.30 western Indonesia time," said the Head of Sub-Directorate IV of the Directorate of Special Economic Crimes at the National Police Criminal Investigation Agency, Grand Commissioner Andri Sudarmaji, when contacted on Friday, July 29.

This investigation into the alleged embezzlement of ACT funds is the first time for Ibnu Khajar who is predicated as active ACT president, Ahyudin as former president and founder of ACT.

Furthermore, Novariadi Ilham Akbari was the supervisor of ACT in 2019 as well as an active coach of ACT, and Heryana Hermain was predicated as former secretary of ACT and Chairman of the active ACT Board of Trustees. This is because the status of the four was only upgraded on July 25.

"(The suspects, ed) have confirmed their presence," said Andri.

On the previous occasion, the Director of Special Economic Crimes of the Indonesian National Police, Brigadier General Whisnu Hermawan, accompanied Ibnu Khajar, Ahyudin, and colleagues as suspects but had not yet been arrested.

Therefore, investigators scheduled an examination of them today. One of the objectives is to consider several things in making a decision to make an arrest or not.

"The decision to be detained or not will be determined after examination as a suspect," said Whisnu.

For information, in investigating the misappropriation of Boeing funds for victims of the Lion Air JT-610 plane crash, ACT used IDR 34 billion which was not in accordance with its allocation.

Originally, Boeing provided aid funds for victims of the Lion Air JT-610 plane crash of around IDR 138 billion. However, only IDR 103 billion was used.

Against the four suspects, the police suspect Articles 372 and 374 of the Criminal Code, Article 45a Paragraph 1 in conjunction with Article 28 Paragraph 1 of the ITE Law.

Then Article 70 Paragraph 1 and 2 in conjunction with Article 5 of Law No. 28 of 2004 concerning foundations. As well as Articles 3, 4 and 5 concerning ML and Article 55 Jo 56 of the Criminal Code with the threat of 20 years in prison.