"The evidence that was successfully secured was in the form of five kilograms of corn seed along with campaign materials," he said.
Padang Aro (ANTARA) - The Solok Selatan police station, West Sumatra, has delegated the electoral dossier of a suspect identified by initials as EW in a money politics case to the Prosecutor's Office) and the dossier has been declared complete or P21.

"It has already been P21 and has been submitted to the prosecutor's office or phase two," said Coordinator of Integrated law Enforcement (Gakumudu) who is also South Solok Criminal Police Headquarters Adjunct Commissioner M Rosidy, in Padang Aro, Sunday.

The certainty of P21 was said, after there was a notification letter from State Prosecutor Office of South Solok about the case files number: B / 17 / IV / 2019 / Reskrim, dated April 11 2019 on Thursday (25/4).

This case of electoral crime was evident from a sack of five kilograms of corn seeds with the inscription of a hybrid ship's corn seed.

The other pieces of evidence include one sheet "printed out the Facebook screenshot" of the suspect, one copy of the decision of the KPU (General Election Commission (KPY) Office in South Sumatra about the permanent list of candidates for the Provincial Legislative Assembly (DPRD) of South Solok in the 2019 Election and one black cellphone unit.

Previously, the Election Supervisory Board (Bawaslu) of South Solok took action against the legislative candidates for the local district identified as "EW" in the Electoral District III which was suspected of committing a crime of money politics.

Chief of the Law, Prevention and Enforcement of Election Supervisory Body of South Solok Suriyanti said, the perpetrators will be subject to Article 523 (1) Law Number 7 Number 2017 with a maximum imprisonment of 2 years.

She said, candidates from the National Mandate Party (PAN) Electoral District III carried out distribution of corn seeds along with campaign material. Outside of money, she further said, in the form of other categories of goods which are not included in campaign material, it is said to be money politics.

In accordance with article 280 (1) letter J of Law Number 7 of 2017 concerning general elections conducted by these legislative candidates including other categories of goods.

The action taken by Gakumdu was based on initial information obtained and after being traced there was an element of money politics.

"The evidence that was successfully secured was in the form of five kilograms of corn seed along with campaign materials," he said.

Translator: Eliswan Azly
Editor: Suharto
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