Detention Of 2 Village Fund Corruption Suspects Deposited At Mukomuko Police

The suspect in the alleged corruption of the Pasar Ipuh Village Fund for the 2021 fiscal year wore a pink vest. (Between)

BENGKULU - The District Attorney (Kejari) Mukomuko has detained two suspects in the alleged corruption crime of the Pasar Ipuh Village Fund for the 2021 fiscal year. Both of them are deposited in the Mukomuko Police Detention Center. The Head of Special Unit of the Mukomuko District Attorney General's Office, Agung Malik Rahman, said the two suspects, namely ED as the former head of the village and Y as the head of village finance. According to him, the two suspects in the corruption of village funds were detained for the next 20 days for the sake of further investigation. In addition, he said, the detention of the two suspects was for the purpose of prosecuting the Public Prosecutor Kejari Mukomuko to examine Furthermore, he said, his party will complete the case files for these two suspects to be transferred to the Corruption Court in Bengkulu City.

He explained that these two people were named suspects because they were responsible for the alleged misappropriation of the Village Fund and the 2021 Village Fund Allocation with a budget of IDR 1.1 billion. The village fund is IDR 327 million.

Meanwhile, based on 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 lent to a number of parties. the. The actions of the former village head were in addition to misappropriating village funds and village fund allocations, including doing fictitious work and not paying equipment salaries. administrators of village institutions and village officials," he concluded.