KPK Grants Seized Goods for Banjarnegara

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has granted Banjarnegara Regency several seized goods from the bribe case. The total assets are estimated to value Rp2.1 billion.

“The grant of seized goods from corruption cases is an effort of asset recovery optimization,” said KPK spokesman Febri Diansyah Tuesday, December 18.

The assets include two plots of land measuring 3,495 square meters and 700 square meters in Gumelem Wetan Village, Susukan, Banjarnegara, Central Java Province. Each land is estimated to worth Rp1.2 billion and Rp197 million respectively. Besides, another confiscated good is in the form of one machine set of Asphalt Mixing Plant values at Rp655 million.

The goods were confiscated from the graft case committed by Amran HI Mustary, head of the National Highway Construction Agency in the Maluku region, on the project at the Public Work and Housing Ministry (PUPR) in 2016. Amran was sentenced to six years behind bars and fine of Rp800 million for a subsidy of six months in jail in April 2017. The anti-graft body confiscated those three assets owned by Amran on January 18, 2018.

Banjarnegara Regent Budhi Sarwono submitted a proposal to KPK in March 2018, demanding those assets for his region. Budhi reasoned that the seized goods were placed in Banjarnegara and that his region required that for the infrastructure development.

Febri explained that after considerations, KPK sent the proposal to the Finance Ministry which was then approved. “The grant will be used to support the infrastructure development in Banjarnegara,” he concluded.