Prosecutors Continue Detention of Members of DPRD Bima Suspect for Corruption PKBM Funds

Police investigators escorted a member of the Bima Regency DPRD with the initials BM (left) who was involved in the alleged corruption case of PKBM program funds for the 2017-2019/ANTARA/HO-Bima City Management period)

MATARAM - The Prosecutor's Office has continued to detain a member of the Bima Regency DPRD with the initials BM who was involved in the alleged corruption case of the Community Learning Activity Center (PKBM) program funds.

The Head of the Intelligence Section of the Bima District Attorney, Andi Sudirman, said that his party entrusted the detention of suspect BM at the Mataram Class IIA Correctional Institution in Kuripan, West Lombok Regency.

"So to facilitate the trial process, which will later be held at the Mataram Corruption Crime District Court, we have entrusted the suspect to the Mataram Prison", Andi said as reported by ANTARA, Friday, October 28.

In the process of transferring detention from the Bima Kota Police Rutan to the Mataram Class IIA Prison, Andi revealed that the Bima Kejari officer was currently taking the BM suspect by land.

"This is now on the road, maybe around 05.00 WITA tomorrow we will arrive in West Lombok. When we get there, we will immediately leave it at the Mataram Prison", he said.

Andi ensured the transfer of detention so that the public prosecutor could present the suspect BM directly before the panel of judges.

Regarding the need for delegation to the court, he said the public prosecutor is currently preparing an indictment.

"The indictment will follow. What is certain is that shortly it will be registered in court", he added.

The detention of the suspect BM is a follow-up to the implementation of stage two or the transfer of the suspect and evidence from the police investigator to the public prosecutor.

The suspect BM was previously detained by investigators after undergoing examination as a suspect on Friday, October 28 morning starting at 10.00 WITA.

The Head of the Public Relations Section of the Bima City Police, Iptu Jufrin, was previously confirmed to have confirmed the detention.

"So the investigators carried out the detention for the benefit of the second stage, the transfer of suspects and evidence to the public prosecutor, which we carried out today", said Jufrin.

The police carried out phase two after the case file belonging to the suspect BM was declared complete by the research prosecutor.

In the completeness of the file, investigators have included the results of the audit of the Financial and Development Supervisory Agency (BPKP) for the NTB Representative with a loss value of IDR 862 million from the total budget management for the 2017-2019 period of IDR 1.44 billion.

The BM suspect, in this case, plays the role of the Head of Karoko Mas Community Learning Activity Center (PKBM), which is located in Nanga Wera Hamlet, Wera District, Bima Regency.

In this capacity, the suspect BM is suspected of being the main actor causing state losses in the management of the 2017-2019 PKBM program funds.