The Tulungagung Prosecutor's Office Handles The Corruption Case For The Procurement Of School Games

Head of the Tulungagung District Attorney's Office, Achmad Muchlis. (ANTARA)

TULUNGAGUNG - Tulungagung District Attorney's Office, East Java, handled a case of alleged corruption in the project of procuring traditional gamelan facilities or musical instruments for 20 elementary and junior high schools in the area in 2020. "(The case) is still being investigated and evidence and related witnesses are being collected," said Tulungagung District Attorney Achmad Muchlis to reporters in Tulungagung, Antara, Friday, December 9. The team of prosecutors investigating this case managed to collect a number of clues that corroborated the alleged corruption. From the calculation, the loss of alleged corruption reached hundreds of millions of rupiah. The title of the case was carried out on November 30, 2022, led directly by the Head of the Tulungagung District Attorney's Office, Achmad Muchlis, decided to raise the status of the case from investigation to investigation. However, until now the prosecutor's office has not named a single person as a suspect even though dozens of witnesses have been examined in the case. "So far, 15 witnesses have been examined," he said. Of the dozens of witnesses who were examined, among them were officials at the Tulungagung Education Office, but Kajari was reluctant to mention the identity of the official in question.