MATARAM – Investigators from the Mataram Police and auditors from the West Nusa Tenggara Representative Financial and Development Supervisory Agency (BPKP) conducted a marathon examination of COVID-19 mask suppliers from the 2020 procurement program.
Kasatreskrim Polres Mataram Kompol I Made Yogi Purusa Utama said the examination of mask suppliers from micro, small and medium enterprise (MSME) actors was part of efforts to calculate the state’s financial losses in the investigation of alleged corruption cases in the procurement of COVID-19 masks.
“So the area of Mataram city is already complete. Now it has arrived in East Lombok. If it is finished, we continue to Sumbawa Island,” Yogi said in Mataram, as quoted by Antara, Tuesday, September 24.
He ensured that MSMEs involved in the procurement of masks to combat the spread of COVID-19 during the pandemic consisted of 100 groups.
The MSMEs involved are spread in almost all districts/cities of West Nusa Tenggara province.
The alleged corruption led to fictitious purchases, MSMEs that have no legality as suppliers in the garment sector, a number of groups that purchased finished products from Java Island, and the existence of regulation by some parties in the procurement process.
On this subject, Yogi did not reveal any certainties about the alleged corruption which strengthens the investigation measures.
“We are waiting for the results of the audit, we will only be able to transmit the whole thing to you,” he said.
Yogi ensured that the results of the BPKP NTB audit would strengthen the evidence to uncover the parties responsible for alleged irregularities in the mask procurement process.
BPKP representatives from NTB registered a working letter on calculating state financial losses on July 3, 2024. The publication of the letter follows the results of the title of the police investigators’ case with BPKP.
The allegedly problematic COVID-19 mask procurement project took place in 2020. The government has a budget of Rs 12.3 billion.
The funds come from the results of the fiscal comfort policy during the pandemic period. The work on the project is under the NTB Province Office of Cooperatives and MSMEs.
Mataram Police has been conducting an investigation since early January 2023, then the increase in handling status to the investigation stage took place in mid-September 2023.
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