The Prosecutor's Office Names 2 Suspects Of Village Fund Corruption At Mukomuko Bengkulu, State Loss Of IDR 327 Million

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MUKOMUKO - The District Attorney for Mukomuko Regency, Bengkulu, has named two suspects in the alleged corruption case of the Pasar Ipuh Village Fund for the 2021 fiscal year.

"These two suspects are former village heads and village finance officers. Of the two suspects, one of them is detained and the other has been postponed due to illness," said Head of the Mukomuko District Attorney's Office, Rudi Iskandar, through the Special Head of Special Investigations, Malik Rahman Hakim, accompanied by the Head of the District Attorney's Office. Intel Radiman, quoted by Antara, Tuesday, June 21.

He said that then one of the two suspects in the alleged corruption case of village funds who were detained would be entrusted to the Mukomuko Rutan Mapolres for the next 20 days.

Regarding one suspect who is sick, he said his party would ask for evidence in the form of a sick certificate from the doctor who treated the suspect.

In addition, the prosecutor's office will summon a doctor who will issue a sick certificate for this suspect and confirm the truth of his illness.

"In the near future we will call the doctor who issued a sick certificate for this suspect, to confirm the truth of his illness," he said.

He explained, these two people were named suspects because they were responsible for the alleged misappropriation of village funds and the allocation of village funds in 2021 with a budget of Rp. 1.1 billion.

Meanwhile, based on the results of an expert witness audit from the Mukomuko Inspectorate, the state loss due to this corruption case amounted to Rp327 million.

Meanwhile, according to witness statements, in 2020, ED, who is still the village head, borrowed village funds from a number of parties with the excuse of financing village development, but until 2020 the loan money was not returned.

Then in 2021 ED returned village funds that were lent to a number of these parties. The actions of the former village head, apart from misappropriating village funds and village fund allocations, included doing fictitious work, and not paying the salaries of staff.

"There is physical work that has not been carried out, namely the construction of four drilled wells. Then there is more budget financing that is not returned, including the salaries of village institution administrators and village officials," he said.

The Legal Advisor for the suspect ED, Taufik Hal Hidayat, said that his party believes there are other suspects in this case, and hopes that law enforcement will investigate this case thoroughly.

"We believe there are other suspects. We ask for this case to be disclosed clearly and according to the SOP, that's our hope," he said.