The Prosecutor's Office Is Still Investigating The LPDB KUMKM Corruption Case In Solo

Head of the Special Criminal Section of the Surakarta Kejari Bakhtiar Ihsan Agung Nugroho/Photo: Antara

SOLO - The Surakarta District Prosecutor's Office (Kejari) is still investigating the alleged criminal case of corruption in loan funds from the Revolving Fund Management Agency for Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises Cooperatives (LPDB KUMKM) with the suspect being the chairman of the BMT Cooperative Management, Nur Ummah Surakarta on MH Tamrin Street No. 77 Solo, worth IDR 1 billion.

"The process of investigating the corruption case of LPDB loan funds with the suspect with the initials Ir S (70), a resident of Solo, is still ongoing and may have reached the final stage", said the Head of the Special Crimes Section of the Surakarta Kejari, Bakhtiar Ihsan Agung Nugroho, in Solo, Friday, July 8.

The current process, said Bakhtiar, is still under the investigation team and will be handed over to the public prosecutor. So the process continues as usual with the suspect Ir S as the Chairman of the Management of the BMT Nur Ummah Solo Cooperative with a state loss of IDR 1 billion.

The Surakarta District Prosecutor's Office shortly will immediately transfer the case file of the alleged corruption case with the suspect Ir S to the Corruption Crime District Court (Tipikor) in Semarang.

Bakhtiar explained that the Surakarta District Prosecutor's Office investigator had examined 60 witnesses and suspects during their interrogation accompanied by legal counsel. In fact, before being detained, the suspect was first checked for health at the Bhayangkara Polyclinic of the Surakarta Police on Wednesday, July 6.

"We still have plans to summon several more witnesses to strengthen the evidence, on Monday, July 11. Next week the case file may be declared complete (P21)", he also said.

Surakarta District Prosecutor's Office has also prepared eight public prosecutors who will guard the trial at the local Corruption Crime District Court.

"We are targeting that by the end of this month, it will be transferred to the Corruption Crime District Court in Semarang. The process is complete, the suspect is detained and the evidence is complete", he said.

Previously, Surakarta District Prosecutor's Office had disclosed an alleged criminal act of corruption in a loan fund case from the Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises Cooperative Revolving Fund Management Agency (LPDB KUMKM) to the BMT Nur Ummah Cooperative Surakarta on MH Tamrin Street No. 77 Solo, worth IDR 1 billion.

According to him, the team of investigators arrested the suspect with the initials Ir S (70), a resident of Solo as the Chairman of the Cooperative Management BMT Nur Ummah Solo on Wednesday, July 7, and the alleged criminal act of this corruption case with state losses reaching IDR 1 billion.

The BMT Nur Ummah Cooperative has engineered the books as if the cooperative suffered a loss in the current year and the previous year. Then a proposal was submitted to the LPDB and finally approved and IDR 1 billion was disbursed in 2011.

However, the cooperative uses funds that are not by its designation and should be distributed to customers. Most of the funds were used for other purposes. In fact, there are 210 customers whose data are registered as fictitious.

The suspect is charged with Article 2 paragraph (1), Article 3, Article 9 in conjunction with Article 18 of Law No. RI. 31/1999. Indonesia Law No. 20/2021 concerning the Eradication of Corruption Crimes. The maximum penalty is 20 years in prison.