Involved In Corruption Of Village Funds Losing Rp. 785 Million State, TTU Prosecutor Executes Ex-Kades Yulius Kolo Seizes A Number Of Assets

Head of the Legal Information and Public Relations Section of the East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) High Prosecutor's Office, Abdul Hakim (ANTARA)

KUPANG - The District Attorney for North Central Timor (TTU) carried out the execution of Yulius Kolo, the former head of Benanain B Village, North Central Timor Regency, East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) Province. Yulius was involved in a village fund corruption case that cost the state more than IDR 785 million.

"The execution team at the TTU District Attorney's Office carried out a bodily execution of former Benenain Village Head Yulius Kolo last weekend," said Head of the Legal Information and Public Relations Section of the NTT High Prosecutor's Office, Abdul Hakim, in Kupang, Antara, Tuesday, May 3.

Abdul Hakim explained that this was related to the legal process against the former Head of Benenain B Village in the 2017-2020 FY village fund corruption case with a total state loss of IDR 785,427,000.

According to him, the execution process was carried out on Friday, April 29 after the TTU District Attorney received the Corruption Court's decision at the Kupang District Court which stated that the defendant's actions were legally and convincingly proven guilty of committing a criminal act of corruption.

The execution was carried out by the executing prosecutor after the decision of the Corruption Court in the Kupang District Court Number 2/Pid.Sus-TPK/2022/Pn.Kpg dated April 8, 2022, which has permanent legal force which in the verdict sentenced the defendant Yulius Kolo to one year imprisonment and 10 months in prison.

In addition, according to Abdul Hakim, the convict was also sentenced to a fine of Rp. 100 million, subsidiary to three months in prison and the obligation to pay compensation for state losses of more than Rp. 245 million.

He added that the executing prosecutor also confiscated evidence in the form of a 2005 Daihatsu Xenia car No. Pol F1278, one plot of land in Km-7 of Sasi Village, Kefamenanu with a size of 20 x 20 m2, one plot of land in Sasi Village with a size of 20 x 3 m2. , one plot of land in Sasi Village with a size of 20 x 15 m2, one plot of land in Baumata Village, Taebenu District, Kupang Regency with a size of 20 x 36 m2 according to the decision, was confiscated for the state to be taken into account as payment of replacement money charged to the defendant in the amount of Rp245 million more.

"If it is not sufficient, then the convict will be sentenced to one year in prison," said Abdul Hakim. According to him, with the execution of the former village head of Benenain B, the person concerned has officially become a convict.