Berang Accused Of Receiving IDR 250 Million, Bima Tatang Regent Defendant Tayeb Opened At The Court

Bima Indah Regent Mohayanti Putri challenged the defendant M Tayeb to reveal evidence of receiving Rp250 million from the Procurement Facilities Assistance Distribution (Saprodi) program for the New Sawah Print for Fiscal Year 2016 at trial.

"We will pay close attention to the legal process that has linked the name of the Bima Regent. Please prove it in the trial," said Head of the Protocol and Communications Section (Prokopim) of the Regional Secretariat (Setda) Bima Suryudin as quoted by ANTARA, Tuesday, February 7.

The Regent of Bima also stated that he did not know about the implementation of the program that runs under the Bima Regency Agriculture, Food Crops and Horticulture Service (PTPH).

Therefore, Suryudin said that the Bima Regent was not related to the accusation by the defendant M. Tayeb in the exception read out in the open trial.

Nevertheless, Suryudin assured that the Regent of Bima respects the legal process currently underway at the Mataram Corruption Court.

"Because this has entered the realm of law, we leave it to the legal process which will determine whether or not the allegations are proven," he said.

M. Tayeb's statement in the exception which stated that the Regent of Bima received Rp250 million from the implementation of the assistance program for farmer groups was conveyed based on the investigation report (BAP) of witness Muhammad, the former Head of the Land Development Rehabilitation and Plant Protection Division of the Bima Regency PTPH Office who also became a defendant.

The existence of the handover of money to the Bima Regent by witness Muhammad was stated to be outside the responsibility of the defendant M. Tayeb as Head of the Bima Regency PTPH Service.

Likewise with irregularities in the implementation stage in the field which resulted in state losses of Rp. 5.1 billion, M. Tayeb stated that he was not involved.

This was convinced by another reminder that the distribution of aid funds took place without going through an intermediary, meaning that the money was sent by the ministry directly to the accounts of each beneficiary from the farmer group (poktan).

By conveying this, M. Tayeb through his legal advisor assessed that the public prosecutor's indictment was vague and unclear in accordance with the provisions of Article 143 paragraph (2) letter b of the Criminal Procedure Code.

Legal adviser M. Tayeb also assessed that the public prosecutor in his indictment had mixed the defendant's duties and responsibilities with witnesses and all beneficiaries.

With this description, the legal advisor asked the panel of judges to accept the exception of the defendant M. Tayeb and remove the defendant from detention, and asked the panel of judges to declare the indictment of the public prosecutor null and void.

In the indictment, the prosecutor charged M. Tayeb with Article 2 paragraph (1) and/or Article 3 in conjunction with Article 18 of Law Number 31 of 1999 concerning Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption as amended by Law no. 20 of 2001 jo. Article 55 paragraph (1) 1st of the Criminal Code.

Defendant M. Tayeb was charged as the person who committed, ordered to commit, and participated in a criminal act of corruption that enriched himself or others.

The prosecutor stated that M. Tayeb jointly committed a criminal act of corruption with two other people, namely Muhammad and Nur Mayangsari, Head of the Rehabilitation and Land Development Section (RPL) of the PTPH Office of Bima Regency, was inactive.

The Saprodi Printing Sawah Baru Assistance Fund Program for Fiscal Year 2016 comes from the Indonesian Ministry of Agriculture to help increase food production in Bima Regency.

The state distributed a budget of IDR 14.4 billion to 241 farmer groups (poktan) in Bima Regency. Distribution of the budget directly to the banking accounts of each group.

The disbursement was carried out in two stages. The first stage was IDR 10.3 billion, 70 percent of the total budget was IDR 14.4 billion, and 30 percent in the second stage with a value of IDR 4.1 billion.

In the indictment, the prosecutor revealed that the defendant M. Tayeb as the official commitment maker issued an order to withdraw cash to the poktan when the budget had entered their respective personal accounts. The money was asked to be collected back at the PTPH Office of Bima Regency.

The collection of the budget, which should be managed independently by each group, was withdrawn on the orders of the defendant M. Tayeb without any submission note.

After the money was collected from the poktan, on the orders of M. Tayeb, Muhammad and Nur Mayangsari made a payment to CV Mitra Agro Santosa, which is located in Jombang, East Java.

Nur Mayangsari as Muhammad's subordinate also received orders to make two memorandums of saprodi orders for CV Mitra Agro Santosa with details of the first note amounting to Rp8.9 billion and for the second order Rp1.7 billion.

The appointment of CV Mitra Agro Santosa as a Saprodi provider is also under the orders of M. Tayeb. Goods purchased from the company include rice seeds, fertilizers, and pesticides.

However, from the list of purchases, there are several items that cannot be provided by CV Mitra Agro Santosa so that some are purchased from local provider companies.

The prosecutor also assessed that the saprodi order was not in accordance with the area of the poktan rice fields registered in the implementation instructions so that there was a shortage which now appears as a value of state losses of Rp. 5.1 billion.