MEDAN, LITERASIHUKUM.COM — The handling of the alleged embezzlement case of congregation funds of the Santo Fransiskus Assisi Aek Nabara Catholic Church Parish, North Sumatra, is entering a new phase. The former Head of Cash of BNI KCP Aek Nabara, Andi Hakim Febriansyah, is still being detained at the North Sumatra Regional Police. At the same time, BNI stated that all funds belonging to the Aek Nabara Parish Credit Union have been returned with a total of IDR 28,257,360,600.

The police stated that the case file is not yet complete or not yet P21 because investigators are still requesting additional information from BNI and matching the suspect's confession regarding the amount of funds actually used. In the initial investigation, the suspect allegedly admitted to only using around IDR 7 billion, while tracing of the entire flow of funds is still ongoing.

This case began in 2018 when the church cooperative management was offered an investment scheme called “BNI Deposito Investment”. The funds collected reached approximately IDR 28 billion from approximately 1,900 cooperative members, who, according to reports, mostly come from farmers and low-income communities. Later, the police and BNI stated that the product was not an official bank service and was not recorded in the company's operational system.