MATARAM - A village treasurer in East Lombok Regency, West Nusa Tenggara named Muhammad Agil Iqbal is revealed to have spent hundreds of millions of dollars playing online gambling.
The actions of the treasurer of Jero Gunung Village were revealed in the trial of reading the indictment by the public prosecutor before the Mataram Corruption Court.
"The village budget that has been disbursed by the defendant is used for personal gain, namely to play slot gambling or online Roulete," said Isa Anshori representing the team of public prosecutors reading out Agil Iqbal's indictment, Antara, Thursday, January 26.
In the description of the indictment, the prosecutor stated that the nominal value of the village budget used by the defendant to play online gambling was Rp. 224 million. The defendant disbursed the money from Bank NTB Syariah by making fake documents and falsifying the signature of the village head.
"To play online gambling, the defendant made two withdrawals in a two-day period in May 2022," he said.
First, on May 10, 2022, the defendant made a village budget withdrawal of Rp140 million. The defendant spent the money to pay the mortgage debt for a private four-wheeled vehicle of Rp15 million, a meal fee of Rp600 thousand, and the rest was spent at the online gambling table.
Then, on May 11, 2022, the defendant made another withdrawal with a nominal value of Rp. 100 million.
"So around Rp. 224 million in the village budget was spent by the defendant for online gambling capital. That money ran out in two days," he said.
The prosecutor explained this in accordance with the results of the East Lombok Inspectorate audit which released state losses of Rp271 million.
With this description of the indictment, the prosecutor charged Agil Iqbal with abusing his authority as village treasurer by falsifying budget disbursement documents and signatures to the village.
The money was also said that Isa was not used by the defendant according to the planning of the Jero Gunung Regional Budget for Fiscal Year 2022. Instead, the money had been used up for the defendant's personal gain.
With the description of such actions, the prosecutor charged Agil Iqbal with Article 2 paragraph (1) and / or Article 3 in conjunction with Article 18 of Law Number 31 of 1999 concerning the Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption (Tipikor) as amended by Law no. 20 of 2001 Article 55 paragraph (1) of the 1st Criminal Code.
After reading the indictment, the defendant through the legal advisory team stated that he did not file an exception against the indictment.
The panel of judges after hearing the response invited the prosecutor to present witnesses in the agenda for the follow-up trial next week.
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