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A team from the East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) District Attorney’s Office was asked to investigate 110 study groups to uncover whether or not IDR 77.6 billion was misused. The funds were allocated for East Nusa Tenggara’s Education, Youth and Sports Office for non-school programs in education. The project is suspected to be fictitious if the registered 110 study groups formed by the Education Office did not receive any financial aid.
NTT District Attorney Mangihut Sinaga told the press on Friday that the Corruption Eradication Comission’s (KPK) request has been followed up by forming a team of investigators and summoning a number of witnesses. However, this was no easy feat as witnesses are spread out across NTT.
The suspected corruption case of the budget allocated for non-school education programs began in 2008 when a community in Kupang District approached the Kupang District Attorney’s Office. They reported that the NTT Education, Youth and Sports Office created a fictitious project.