The Mataram District Court (PN) sent an appeal file belonging to Andi Sirajudin, a defendant in the corruption of social assistance (bansos) for the people affected by the fire in Bima Regency in 2020 to the Supreme Court (MA).
Spokesperson for the Mataram District Court Kelik Trimargo explained that the cassation file was sent to the Supreme Court after receiving memory and counter memory from the public prosecutor (JPU) and the defendant.
"We received an appeal from the prosecutor and followed the counter-cassation memory from the defendant. That's why last weekend we sent the cassation file to the Supreme Court," said Kelik in Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara (NTB), Thursday, June 8, which was confiscated by Antara.
Previously, the Head of the Intelligence Section of the Bima Kejari Andi Sudirman stated that his party had filed an appeal by giving an official statement through the Mataram District Court.
The appeal was filed for three defendants who had received acquittal from the Corruption Court at the Mataram District Court with one of the defendants Andi Sirajudin, the former Head of the Bima Regency Social Service.
Regarding the completeness of the cassation file for the other two defendants, Kelik Trimargo stated that his party had not submitted it to the Supreme Court.
"Still waiting for the completeness of the files, so not for the other two defendants," he said.
Apart from Andi Sirajudin, the two defendants who received acquittal from the Corruption Court at the Mataram District Court were Ismud, the former Head of Social Protection and Security (Linjamsos) of the Bima Ismud and Sukardin District Social Service who acted as assistants to the distribution of social assistance funds.
The composition of the panel of judges who acquitted the three defendants was Mukhlasuddin as the presiding judge with members Mahyudin Igo and Fadhli Hanra.
The judge in the verdict, Monday, April 17, stated that he did not find any facts related to evidence that the three defendants received money from the cutting of fire social assistance funds.
The judge also considered the Rp105 million as a form of sincerity for the recipients to the service who had helped make an accountability letter for the disbursement of the first phase of funds.
It was also considered that giving money sincerely to the office occurred after the beneficiaries received funds sent to each bank account.
The public prosecutor previously asked the judge to sentence the defendants Ismud and Sukardin to 2 years in prison and a fine of Rp. 100 million, subsidiary to 3 months in prison.
For Andi Sirajudin, the public prosecutor asked the judge to sentence him to 3 years and a fine of Rp. 250 million, subsidiary to 6 months in prison.
The prosecutor demanded such a sentence by stating that the actions of the three defendants were proven to have violated Articles 11 and 12e of Law Number 31 of 1999 concerning the Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption as amended by Law no. 20 of 2001 in conjunction with Article 55 paragraph (1) of the 1st Criminal Code.
The prosecutor also explained in the description that the initial corruption case was revealed, namely from the complaint of social assistance beneficiaries in the distribution program in 2021.
The beneficiaries of this assistance came from the fire disaster victims in Bima Regency in 2020 as many as 258 families spread across 6 villages.
Each recipient gets financial assistance from the ministry directly to their respective personal accounts. The total funds disbursed are IDR 5.4 billion.
The budget is received in two stages, 60 percent for the first stage, the rest is given on the condition that the recipient must make a letter of responsibility.
From the examination of beneficiaries with a total of 258 people, it was revealed that there was a cut in social assistance funds from the Bima District Social Service with varying nominal. The cuts occurred when the recipient disbursed the social assistance funds through the banking sector.
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According to the recipient's statement, the Social Service Agency cut it with the excuse of administrative costs. The cut value is quite diverse, ranging from Rp. 500 thousand to Rp. 1.2 million per recipient.
In this case, the prosecutor also described the roles of each defendant starting with the report of the defendant Sukardin as a companion to Andi Sirajudin, the Head of the Bima District Social Service regarding recipients who could not make SPJ.
As the head of the service, Andi also ordered Sukardin to cut social assistance funds from aid recipients as an administrative fee for making SPJs. The cuts varied. For houses that were lightly damaged, Rp. 500 thousand was cut, moderately damaged Rp. 800 thousand, and heavily damaged Rp. 1.2 million.
From that cut, Sukardin managed to collect Rp105 million. The cut was then deposited with Andi Sirajudin and Ismud.
From the funds collected, the prosecutor explained that Andi Sirajudin received Rp23 million and Ismud Rp32 million. Sukardin took the remaining Rp50 million.
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