Will Save State Losses, Asset Data Prosecutor 2 Corruption Suspects For West Sumbawa Village

Prosecutors' investigators conducted data collection on valuable assets belonging to two suspects in the corruption case in the management of government capital investment funds to the Regional Public Company (Perusda) of West Sumbawa Regency.

"Yes, we are still collecting data on the suspect's assets," said Head of the Intelligence Section of the West Sumbawa District Attorney's Office (Kejari) Rasyid Yuliansyah by telephone, Thursday, September 7, confiscated by Antara.

Rasyid explained that asset data collection was an effort to save state losses due to allegations of corruption involving the suspect with the initials SA as the Acting Director (Plt) of Perusda West Sumbawa and EK was the Director of CV Putra Andalan Marine (PAM) of the Perusda partner.

"So, this data collection will make it easier for us if later confiscation is needed," he said.

Regarding the valuable assets that have now been recorded in the prosecutor's data, Rasyid said it is still under the authority of investigators.

"Later, for that (valued assets), the initial data collection stage is still under the authority of investigators," he said.

In this case, the West Sumbawa Kejari has named SA and EK as suspects.

One of the pieces of evidence that stated that SA and EK as suspects were related to the discovery of indications of unlawful acts and the emergence of potential state losses of Rp. 2.1 billion in the management of government capital participation funds for the period 2016 to 2021 with a total of Rp. 7.2 billion.

With the construction of these findings, investigators named both of them as suspects in the alleged management of capital participation that was not in accordance with the provisions of the cooperation agreement.

By finding indications of such a violation of the law, investigators apply the allegations of Article 2 paragraph (1) and/or Article 3 of Law Number 31 of 1999 concerning the eradication of criminal acts of corruption as amended by Law no. 20 of 2001 in conjunction with Article 55 paragraph (1) of the 1st Criminal Code jo. Article 64 of the Criminal Code.

In handling this case, the prosecutor's investigator first detained SA by entrusting the person concerned at the West Sumbawa Police Detention Center.

Meanwhile, the detention of suspect EK, the prosecutor's office, was reluctant to convey it on the grounds of maintaining the safety and security of the suspect.