The Alleged Corruption Case Of PT Pegadaian Rantau South Kalimantan, State Losses Estimated At IDR 2.7 Billion

Illustration of transactions at PT Pegadaian (Persero) Branch Offices. (Antara-Arif F)

KALSEL - The Tapin Regency District Attorney's Office (Kejari) has revealed a case of alleged corruption at PT Pegadaian (Persero) Branch Service Unit (UPC) Rantau, Tapin, South Kalimantan (Kalsel). The loss suffered by the state is estimated at Rp. 2.7 billion.

Chief of the Kejari Tapin Adi Fakhruddin said that in this corruption case the Head of PT Pegadaian UPC Rantau with the initials RAF (29) had been named a suspect. RAF is suspected of misusing the Fast Secured Credit (KCA) distribution process.

"The consequences, based on the results of an audit of the calculation of state financial losses carried out by the South Kalimantan Province BPKP, amounted to Rp2.7 billion," he said in an official statement, quoted from Antara, Monday, July 18.

Adi said that after being investigated as a suspect, investigators from the Tapin Kejari arrested RAF.

"The investigation team of the Tapin District Attorney's Office is considering that the suspect will run away, damage, or eliminate evidence and/or repeat the crime. The RAF suspect is being held at the Rantau Rutan for the next 20 (twenty) days," he said.

Head of Special Prosecutor's Office, Tapin Dwi Kurnianto, said the alleged corruption by the woman with the initials RAF occurred from June 2019 to April 2020.

"In this case, if it is a general crime, it falls into embezzlement because it involves BUMN, then it is a criminal act of corruption," he said.

Currently, he said, during the suspect's detention period at the Rantau Rutan, his party was in the process of completing the case file. "Only one suspect. Not P21 yet, will be informed again," he said.