Corruption Defendant Claims to Have Transfer Evidence to Prosecutor, NTB High Prosecutor's Office Responds

The Supervisory Division of the West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) High Prosecutor’s Office is investigating allegations that a prosecutor received bribes from Subhan, the former Head of the Sumbawa Land Agency who is a defendant in a land procurement corruption case in Sumbawa. “That (the alleged bribe) is still being explored, still being investigated,” said the Assistant for Supervision at the NTB High Prosecutor’s Office, I Wayan Eka Widdyara, on Friday, 3 July 2026. He stated that the information regarding the allegation remains general in nature. There are no specific details yet that would provide a basis for the NTB High Prosecutor’s Office to investigate potential ethical violations by the prosecutor. The defendant, who conveyed the matter to the public through his legal counsel, has also not yet filed an official report with the NTB High Prosecutor’s Office. He therefore invited the relevant party to come forward and file a report with supporting evidence so that it could serve as a reference for the supervisory division to conduct a deeper investigation. “We are waiting for the information (official report) before we can prove it. Please, if there is a name, report it. Our supervisory division is open,” he said. The information regarding the alleged bribe received by a prosecutor from defendant Subhan was also addressed by the Head of the NTB High Prosecutor’s Office, Wahyudi. Wahyudi responded to the defendant Subhan’s plan to report the matter to the Attorney General’s Commission and Commission III of the House of Representatives. “That is his (the defendant’s) right, please go ahead. We just rely on facts and data, that is all,” said Wahyudi. He confirmed that during the development of Subhan’s main case into gratification and money laundering charges, he had not received any information about such bribery. “So far, reports from colleagues (investigators) have not pointed in that direction (receipt of money). If there were, that information would certainly be used as evaluation material by the investigators,” he said. The news of the alleged receipt of money by a prosecutor emerged from a statement by Subhan’s legal counsel, Kurniadi. He asserted that his team possesses evidence identifying several prosecutors as recipients of bribes. “There is evidence of transfers. We have it. There is money coming in and going out,” said Kurniadi. However, he revealed that the transfer evidence has not yet been recorded as part of the examination materials for his client in the investigation process for the money laundering and gratification cases, which were developed from the main land procurement case.