Prosecutor's Office Ogan Ilir Sumsel Confiscates 225 Square Meters of Land Owned by Bawaslu Staff Involved in Grants Corruption

PALEMBANG - The investigating team of the Ogan Ilir District Prosecutor's Office, South Sumatra, seized assets from a local district Election Supervisory Body (Bawaslu) staff member with the initials RM.

RM is a suspect in the alleged corruption case on the use of grant funds for holding regional head elections in 2020.

Head of the Ogan Ilir District Prosecutor's Office Nur Surya said that the assets seized by the prosecutor from the suspect RM included a 225 square meter plot of land in Ogan Ilir Regency.

"These assets were confiscated to return state financial losses because they were allegedly obtained from the proceeds of the corruption crime that was suspected of RM", explained Nur to the reporter in Palembang, Antara, Thursday, November 16.

For your information, RM, as the operational staff for the Financial Sector of the Bawaslu Ogan Ilir, was named a suspect by the investigating prosecutor and two other people on November 3, 2022.

The other two suspects, namely, with the initials AS, Bawaslu Secretariat/PPK Coordinator Ogan Ilir 2019-2020 and HF, Bawaslu Secretariat/PPK Coordinator Ogan Ilir 2022-2021.

He explained, from the results of the Ogan Ilir District Attorney's investigation into 52 witnesses and supported by sufficient evidence, the three were suspected of making fictitious accountability or mark-ups for the use of grant fund management.

Where the case began when the Ogan Ilir Bawaslu received grants worth IDR 19.350 billion from the local Regency Regional Budget for the 2019 and 2020 fiscal years.

Then, based on the audit report of the South Sumatra Financial and Development Supervisory Agency (BPKP) received by the prosecutor's office, it was stated that the suspect's actions caused state financial losses of IDR 7.401 billion.

Therefore, according to him, after the case files were declared complete the three suspects along with the evidence were immediately handed over to the Public Prosecutor for trial at the Palembang Corruption Crime District Court.

For their actions, the three suspects were charged with Article 2 Paragraph (1) Juncto Article 18 Law (UU) number 31 of 1999 as amended and supplemented by Law number 20 of 2001 concerning the eradication of Corruption Crimes Juncto Article 55 Paragraph (1) 1 Criminal Code Juncto Article 64 Paragraph (1) Criminal Code.