Kejari Jember Tahan Kades Mundurejo Tersangka Korupsi Dana Desa Hundreds Of Million

Jember Kejari officers brought the Head of the Redurejo ES who wore pink vests to be detained at the Class II-A Jember Prison, Tuesday (11/7/2023) evening. (ANTARA/Zumrotun Solichah)

Jember District Attorney's investigators, East Java, detained the village head of Mundurejo with the initials ES, a suspect in a corruption case in the management of village funds.

"The investigating prosecutor's team named ES as a suspect after having sufficient evidence in the case of the Pavingization Work of Jalan Navi in Mundurejo Village," said Head of the Jember Kejari I Nyoman Sucitrawan, quoted by ANTARA, Tuesday, July 11.

According to him, the ES suspect was responsible for using the road pavingization work budget by ordering village officials to make a number of fictitious accountability reports for the work.

Even though the road paving work was carried out and financed by the former Kades Mundurejo personally in 2019. Even the budget for eating and drinking for workers also came from self-help from the surrounding community.

Kajari explained that the suspect ES contained the budget contained in the Resignation Village Regulation Number 7 of 2021 concerning the APBDes Munduejo which included a pavingization budget on Jalan Naviisebesar Rp275,743,210 with a road length of 300 meters and a width of 3.2 meters.

"ES has also disbursed the entire budget and used it to pay the paving road tax amounting to Rp33,090,900 so that the remaining Rp242,652,310. Then the remaining money seems to be handed over to the paving seller with the initials G amounting to Rp96,700,000," he said.

The paving seller with the initials G, who in the case was a witness, has entrusted the money to the Jember Kejari Special Crimes investigators.

Meanwhile, the remaining Rp145,952,310 was under the control of the ES suspect to benefit himself.

"Based on the audit of the East Java Prosecutor's Office, the case involving the village head resulted in more than Rp242 million in state losses," he said.

The suspect ES was charged with Article 2 paragraph 1, Article 3 junto Articles 8 and 18 of Law Number 31 of 1999 as amended by Law Number 20 of 2001 concerning the Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption.

"The suspect is threatened with a minimum imprisonment of four years and a maximum of 20 years or life imprisonment, while a fine of at least Rp. 200 million and a maximum of Rp. 1 billion," he explained.

The ES suspect was detained for the next 20 days from July 11 to 30, 2023 at the Jember Class II A Penitentiary (Lapas) for further investigation and the case was immediately transferred to the Corruption Court.