The Head Of The Regional Secretariat For The Riau Islands Regency Government And His Colleagues Are Suspects In The Corruption Case Of Fuel Shopping

The Lingga District Attorney's Office (Kejari), Riau Islands, held a press conference on the corruption case of the Lingga Regency Government BBM expenditure for the 2022 fiscal year at its office, Wednesday (13/9/2023). (ANTARA/HO-Humas Kejari Lingga)

RIAU - The Lingga District Attorney's Office (Kejari), Riau Islands (Kepri) has named two state civil servants (ASN) as suspects in corruption in oil fuel spending activities (BBM) for sea and river transportation for the 2022 fiscal year. "We have raised the status of the two ASNs from witnesses to suspects in this corruption case," said Head of the Lingga District Attorney's Office (Kajari), Rizal Edison in a statement at his office, Antara, Wednesday, September 13. The two suspects, with the initials AWB as Head of the General Section of the Regional Secretariat (Setda) of the Lingga Regency Government who is also the Budget User Authority (KPA). Then, the suspect with the initials H as the Technical Implementation Officer for Activities (PPTK) spent on sea and river transportation fuel expenditure activities in the Lingga Regency Government Budget for the 2022 fiscal year. "This “ AWB and H are still actively serving as ASN in the Lingga Regency Government," said Rizal. Rizal revealed that the chronology of the incident began when the Lingga Regency Government through the General Secretariat carried out sea and river transportation fuel procurement activities from the 2022 Lingga Regency APBD budget of IDR 3.1 billion. The budget allocation is sourced from the Pure APBD amounting to Rp900 million and in the Revised APBD amounting to Rp2.2 billion. The suspect AWB himself was designated as KPA for activities from December 30, 2021 and then from January to April 2022 he appointed Agt as PPTK. However, from May to December 2022, PPTK was replaced by suspect H. In its implementation, in early 2022 KPA has established a fuel distribution sub, namely Kios BBM Dua Brothers domiciled in Daik, Kios BBM Anugrah Jaya lives in Penuba and Kios BBM Berkat domiciled in Dabo. As a form of cooperation, KPA and each sub-distributor of fuel signed a cooperation agreement letter. Furthermore, KPA, PPTK and each sub-distributor agreed that there was no need to distribute fuel by each sub-distributor, but if there was payment from the general section based on the value stipulated in the Fund Disbursement Order (SP2D). "“So the money that has been transferred and has been received in the account of each sub channeler is re-issued and handed over to KPA," he said. As for the activity, Rizal continued, it turned out that for activities with the two Brothers BBM Kiosk and the Anugrah Jaya BBM Kiosk, some of them carried out and some of them were not carried out fictitious or fictitious. As for activities with BBM Berkat kiosks, all of them were not carried out, aka fictitious, but the funds were spent or paid. In this activity, Rizal continued, suspect Awb as KPA submitted a payment request letter (SPP) and a payment order (SPM) to the treasurer of the Lingga Regional Secretariat using accountability data obtained from the falsified PPTK. “ Subsequently, the data was submitted to the Lingga Regency BUD to issue SP2D,” explained Kajari. After the SP2D was determined and a payment transfer was made to the account of the recipients of each sub-distributor of fuel, suspect H as PPTK informed each distributor that the money transferred to their accounts was handed over to him as PPTK. " “ Then suspect H as PPTK, handed over funds from the recording to KPA for his personal needs,” said Rizal. Then in October 2022, the suspect, Awb, always KPA, ordered suspect H to seek funds in collaboration with parties who could help with their needs, so that PT. Mitra Selayang Indonesia, which lives in Batam City, got it. In this BBM shopping activity with PT.Mitra Selayang, it also uses evidence and fake data and then the money is transferred to PT. Mitra Selayang Indonesia and taken again for KPA through PPTK and is PT. Mitra Selayang Indonesia's gain of 10 percent of the value obtained. The actions of the suspects Awb as KPA and H as PPTK, contrary to the appropriate value in managing regional finances, this is not in accordance with Article 3 paragraph (1) of the Government Regulation of the Republic of Indonesia Number 12 of 2019 concerning Regional Financial Management. "The Audit Report from the Auditor of the Riau Islands High Prosecutor's Office also stated that the state losses from corruption reached Rp2 billion," Rizal said. For their actions, the suspects Awb and H were charged with Article 2 paragraph (1) and/or Article 3 and/or Article 9 in conjunction with Article 18 paragraph (1) letters a and b, paragraph (2) and paragraph (3) of Law Number 31 of 1999 concerning Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption as amended and added to Law Number 20 of 2001 concerning Amendments to Law of the Republic of Indonesia Number 31 of 1999 concerning Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption in conjunction with Article 55 paragraph (1) 1st K.U.P in conjunction with Article 64 paragraph (1) K.U.P. "For the investigation and prosecution process, we detained the two suspects for 20 days in the detention center, after previously a medical examination was carried out stating that both of them were in good health," he said.

In addition, continued the Lingga Kejari, his party also received a refund of Cq Regional Financial Losses of Rp155 million from each fuel distribution sub in Lingga.