Kompolnas Backs Police to Thoroughly Investigate Coal Corruption Case
Jakarta (ANTARA) - Member of the National Police Commission (Kompolnas) Mohammad Choirul Anam has expressed his support for the police to thoroughly investigate and expose the masterminds behind the alleged corruption in coal procurement at PLN, which triggered a total blackout in Sumatra.
“Kompolnas is certainly paying attention to this case and giving its support to uncovering this corruption,” Anam said when contacted in Jakarta on Thursday.
According to Anam, corruption in a sector that fulfils the basic needs of the public not only harms state finances but also has a direct impact and disrupts the daily activities of ordinary people.
“The most fundamental thing is that this corruption disrupts, not only harming state finances but also disrupting people’s lives with the rolling blackouts and so on. People’s lives have been severely disrupted,” he said.
He added that the systemic impact of periodic power cuts resulting from corrupt governance also hit the public economy, from micro-businesses to industries that suffered material losses.
Therefore, Kompolnas urged police investigators to work professionally, transparently and without discrimination in taking action against anyone behind the case.
“In this context, Kompolnas encourages and supports the police to act professionally by exposing anyone behind this affair. Law enforcement must not retreat a single step,” Anam asserted.
In closing, he also invited all levels of society to safeguard the legal process and give their full support to the National Police (Polri) in order to bring about a clean bureaucratic reform.
“We invite everyone to respect and support this effort. At the very least, in this context, so that our electricity governance improves,” he said.
The investigation team of the National Police’s Corruption and Other Specified Crimes Enforcement Corps (Kortastipidkor) has seized gold bars, foreign currency and cash worth around Rp476 billion from a house in the Sentul area of Bogor Regency, West Java, in the early hours of Thursday.
Head of the National Police’s Kortastipidkor, Commissioner General Totok Suhatyanto, said after the search that the seizure was made from the luxury house in Sentul as part of the investigation into alleged corruption and money laundering offences.
“We found a locked safe which, once opened, contained seven suitcases: 74 kilograms of gold bars, US$4,767,300, S$14,083,800, and Rp100 million in cash,” Totok said.