Status Of Alleged Corruption In The East Lombok Irrigation Well Project Rises Investigation

Illustration of gratification or the practice of criminal acts of corruption. (Unsplash)

NTB - The alleged corruption case of the drilling well project for agricultural irrigation in East Lombok Regency for the 2017 fiscal year has advanced to the investigation stage.

"Today we are raising the bore well case to the investigation stage," said Head of the East Lombok District Attorney's Office (Kejari), Efi Laila Kholis in his statement, Friday, November 10, confiscated by Antara.

He explained that the increase in the status of this handling was the result of a case title by looking at the investigation process which had found evidence towards a criminal act of corruption.

At the investigation stage, he said, the prosecutor's office had asked for information from the parties involved and knew about the project. They said Efi came from project implementers, regional officials to ministries.

"The investigative team is of the opinion that they have found sufficient evidence. This then becomes our basis for increasing the status of case handling to the investigation stage," he said.

Efi said that during the investigation stage, the investigative team is now starting to schedule witness examinations and collect evidence, both from the search for documents and statements from criminal experts and audits of state losses.

"As usual, there will be witness examinations to find evidence in determining the suspect," he said.

The drilling well project, which is suspected of having problems with its construction work, is in Tejong Daya Hamlet, Kengga Village, Suela District, East Lombok Regency. The construction was budgeted for in 2017.

The development budget of IDR 1.13 billion, he said, came from the Directorate of Development of Certain Regions at the Ministry of Villages, Development of Disadvantaged Regions and Transmigration (Kemendes PDTT).

From ministry data, the implementer of this project is a company based in Mataram City, CV SAMAS. The company emerged as the winner of the auction with an offering value of IDR 1.13 billion from a ceiling of IDR 1.24 billion.