Unila Chancellor Uses Bribery Money For Deposits To Purchase Gold Bars

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JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has named the Chancellor of the University of Lampung (Unila) Karoman as a suspect in the alleged bribery of accepting new student candidates at the campus he leads. The money he received from bribes was used for deposits to buy gold bullion.

"The money (from bribes) has been converted into savings deposits and gold bullion," said KPK Deputy Chair Nurul Ghufron at the KPK's Red and White Building, South Jakarta, Sunday, August 21.

But unfortunately, Ghufron did not specify the total gold and deposits owned by Karoman from bribes. He said that not all of the bribes received were used as goods and deposits by Karoman, some of them were still in the form of cash.

"Saved in the form of cash with a total of around Rp. 4.4 billion," said Ghufron.

Ghufron said the money was collected with the help of the Head of the Planning and Public Relations Bureau of Unila Budi Sutomo and the Chair of the Unila Senate Muhammad Basri. However, Budi was not named a suspect in this case.

For your information, the KPK has named four suspects in this case. They are the Chancellor of Unila, Karoman; Vice Chancellor I for Academic Affairs, University of Lampung, Heryandi; Chairman of the Senate of the University of Lampung, Muhammad Basri; and the private sector, Andi Desfiandi.

KPK Director of Investigation Asep Guntur Rahayu said the investigative team detained three suspects for the first 20 days from August 20, 2022 to September 8, 2022, namely Karoman was detained at the KPK Detention Center at the KPK Red and White Building and Heryandi and Muhammad Basri were detained at the KPK Detention Center at the Jaya Guntur Pomdam. .

Meanwhile, the suspect Andi Desfiandi was detained from August 21, 2022 to September 9, 2022 at the KPK Detention Center at Pomdam Jaya Guntur.

"Because there was a time difference between the time of arrest, the Army was arrested later," said Asep.

For their actions, Karoman, Heryandi, and Muhammad Basri as recipients were suspected of violating Article 12 letter a or letter b or Article 11 of Law Number 31 of 199 concerning the Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption as amended by Law Number 20 of 2001 in conjunction with Article 55 paragraph 1 to 1 of the Criminal Code.

Meanwhile Andi Desfiandi as the giver is suspected of violating Article 5 paragraph 1 letter a or Article 5 paragraph 1 letter b or Article 13 of Law Number 31 of 1999 concerning Eradication of Corruption Crimes as amended by Law Number 20 of 2001.