JAKARTA – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has finally officially announced the suspects for alleged corruption in the management of the Tabanan regional incentive fund (DID) in 2018. The KPK announced that the suspect in Tabanan DID is the former Tabanan Regent Ni Putu Eka Wiryastuti, Special Staff of the Tabanan Regent for Economics and Development I Dewa Nyoman Wiratmaja and an official from the Indonesian Ministry of Finance, Rifa Surya. The KPK also detained Eka Wiryastuti and Dewa Wiratmaja.
–
“This afternoon we will announce the detention of a suspect in a corruption crime related to the Regional Incentive Fund for Tabanan Regency in 2018,” said Deputy Chairman of KPK Lili Pintauli Siregar in a press conference at the KPK Building, Thursday, March 24, 2022 which was also broadcast through a number of KPK social media channels, such as Youtube and Facebook.
–
Lili explained that previously the KPK had also named a number of suspects, namely Yaya Purnomo, former Section Head at the Director General of Fiscal Balance, Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Indonesia and friends.
–
“Furthermore, the KPK announced that the suspect for NPEW (Ni Putu Eka Wiryastuti), was the Regent of Tabanan for the period 2010 to 2015 and also 2016 to 2021. Then IDNW (I Dewa Nyomann Wiratmaja, ed) was a lecturer at the hospital (Rifa Surya),” said Lili .
Lili said Rifa Surya was the former head of the DAK Physical II section of the Director General of Fiscal Balance at the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Indonesia.
However, in the press conference, the Corruption Eradication Commission only mentioned that those detained were only Eka Wiryastuti and Dewa Wiratmaja. Meanwhile, Rifa Surya has not been arrested.
“And for the purposes of the investigation, the investigative team made efforts to forcibly detain the suspects, each for 20 days from March 24 to April 12, 2022,” said Lili.
–
