6 People Including Ojek Driver Suspect In Corruption Of Grant Funds At Dispora Riau Islands, State Loss Of IDR 6.2 Billion

The Riau Islands Police revealed a corruption case in the Youth and Sports Division of the Riau Islands Province Government (Via ANTARA)

KEPRI - The Riau Islands Provincial Police's Ditreskrimus revealed a corruption case in the Youth and Sports Sector (Dispora) of the Riau Islands Provincial Government with a state loss of IDR 6.2 billion.

"Globally, this case is a corruption case of grant funds," said the Deputy Director of the Criminal Investigation Division of the Riau Islands Police AKBP Nugroho Agus Setiawan in Batam, Riau Islands, Antara, Monday, April 11.

He explained that the case was corruption in grant spending activities in the Youth and Sports Sector at the Riau Islands Provincial Government DPA-PPKD using APBD funds and the Riau Islands Provincial Revised Regional Budget for Fiscal Year 2020.

His party named six suspects, namely TR alias WH (44) years of civil servant work in the Riau Islands Province, MN alias USN alias UCN alias TTR (39) working as an entrepreneur, SPN alias AR (35) working as a motorcycle taxi driver, AAS (27) years self-employed , and MIF alias FLS (33) years also self-employed.

The corruption case at the Dispora is one of four clusters of investigations carried out by the Ditreskrimsus of the Riau Islands Police, with a state loss of around Rp. 20 billion.

"But in our investigation, we divided them into four clusters and revealed today's case is the first cluster, namely the one in the Riau Islands Province Youth and Sports Office with a state loss of Rp 6,215,000,000," he said.

Head of the Multimedia Sub-Division of the Public Relations Division of the Riau Islands Police, AKBP Surya Iswandar, said that the case began with public information. Sub Directorate III of Tipidkor Ditreskrimsus Polda Riau Islands then carried out an investigation, asking for information from a number of people consisting of the Riau Islands Provincial Government, grant recipients, notaries and owners or employees where the grant activities were carried out.

On January 3, 2022, his party began the process of investigating the alleged corruption case.

"From the results of the investigation, it was found that the act was against the law and was supported by a minimum of two valid pieces of evidence and the results of the audit of state financial losses by the audit team from the BPKP representative office in Riau Islands Province were similar to the report on the results of the audit of state financial losses number: SR-141 /PW28/5 /2022, April 4, 2022 with a total state financial loss of 'loss' or IDR 6,215,000,000," he said.

During the investigation, investigators took a series of actions, including summoning and examining 77 witnesses, confiscating evidence in the form of money amounting to Rp.233,650,000 from grantees as well as a number of related documents.

"The Ditreskrimsus also coordinates with experts, one of which is with a team of auditors from the Riau Islands Province BPKP representatives in terms of auditing the calculation of state financial losses related to the case in question," he said.

For his actions, the suspect was charged with Article 2 paragraph (1) and/or Article 3 of Law no. 20 of 2001 amendments to Law no. 31 of 1999 concerning the Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption in conjunction with Article 55 Paragraph (1) of the 1st Criminal Code, with a minimum imprisonment of 4 years and a maximum of 20 years and a minimum fine of Rp. 200 million and a maximum of Rp. 1 billion.