Suspended auditor receives Rp 140m from KPU<\/p>\n
Ridwan Max Sijabat, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta<\/p>\n
A suspended state auditor confessed to having received a total of
\nRp 140 million in cash from the General Elections Commission
\n(KPU) to "fix" the findings of an audit on the poll body.<\/p>\n
Djapiten Nainggolan, who has been suspended by the Supreme
\nAudit Agency (BPK) for his alleged involvement in the high-
\nprofile graft case, said he received the first two payments
\ntotaling Rp 36 million as a "transportation fee" through two
\nother auditors, Chaidar and Onegawati, in January and February
\nlast year. The last payment of Rp 104 million was given by KPU
\ndeputy treasurer M. Dentjik in October last year.<\/p>\n
"I received the money as a gratuity from the KPU," Djapiten
\nsaid in his testimony during the trial of KPU treasurer Hamdani
\nAmin in the Anticorruption Court here on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Djapiten also admitted that the payments were connected to the
\nBPK's audit of the commission's outlays.<\/p>\n
The gratuities were handed over during the final stages of the
\naudit, he said, but all the money was paid over to the Corruption
\nEradication Commission (KPK) following the arrest of KPU member
\nMulyana W. Kusumah after he was caught red-handed bribing a BPK
\nauditor, Khairiansyah Salman. Mulyana was convicted and sentenced
\nto 31 months in jail.<\/p>\n
Mulyana's arrest prompted the widening of the investigation
\ninto corruption at the KPU that implicated a number of the
\norganization's members and staff, as well as those from the BPK
\nand finance ministry, and House of Representatives lawmakers.
\nSome of them have been convicted of or are currently on trial for
\ngraft.<\/p>\n
Djapiten, the third witness to testify in the Hamdani case,
\nhas been suspended along with two other BPK auditors, Chaidar and
\nM. Priyono. Khairiansyah quit the BPK last July while action
\nagainst BPK deputy chairman Abdullah Zaini is still pending. BPK
\nchairman Anwar Nasution said he would not take any action against
\nZaini as the case occurred when the latter was a House lawmaker.<\/p>\n
Zaini received Rp 200 million as a gift for his son's marriage
\nwhen he was the deputy chairman of the House budget committee. He
\nreturned the money after the high-profile case surfaced.<\/p>\n
He also testified to the court that 13 other BPK auditors and
\nstaff members received money from the KPU amounting to between Rp
\n1.5 million and Rp 107 million, including Chaidar, Priyono,
\nOnegawati, Helmi Rubain, Deddy, Nur, Iswardani, Yanti Fitri,
\nSulung, Kerot and Suharto.<\/p>\n
Anwar said recently that apart from the three auditors who had
\nbeen suspended indefinitely, other auditors who accepted KPU
\nmoney had been demoted.<\/p>\n
Djapiten said that only Latief, another member of the audit
\nteam, refused money, Rp 1.5 million in all, from the KPU. This
\nmoney was later taken up jointly by the team.<\/p>\n
Another witness, Sussongko Suhardjo, revealed that KPU
\nChairman Nazaruddin Sjamsuddin asked him to testify against
\nformer KPU secretary-general Safder Yussac, who was responsible
\nfor the procurement of election materials.<\/p>\n
Acting KPU secretary-general Sussongko said that following
\nMulyana's arrest, the situation in the KPU offices became so
\nchaotic that Nazaruddin decided to work from home.<\/p>\n
"He (Nazaruddin) convinced me that the Mulyana case would not
\nimplicate more people and said that he would lobby the BPK
\nchairman not to reveal irregularities that implicated KPU
\nmembers," he said.<\/p>\n
Sussongko was sentenced to three years in jail for his role in
\nthe collection of kickbacks from companies that won supply
\ncontracts from the KPU.<\/p>",
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