Police Coordinate with KPK to Investigate Three Corruption Cases
Investigators from a joint Polri team have coordinated with the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) in handling cases of corruption, bribery, gratification and money laundering related to the coal procurement scandal and the Asabri affair.
Ahead of a press conference at the Metro Jaya Regional Police Headquarters on Friday evening (10/7), two nameplates belonging to KPK officials had been placed on the table: Deputy for Supervision Ely Kusumastuti and Deputy for Enforcement Asep Guntur Rahayu.
However, when the press conference was about to begin, the two nameplates were removed. Furthermore, the two KPK officials did not take part in the press conference.
Head of Public Relations for the Metro Jaya Regional Police, Senior Commissioner Budi Hermanto, said his side had indeed coordinated with the KPK regarding the handling of the three cases.
“The presence of our fellow law enforcement officers from the KPK is to carry out coordination — coordination between law enforcement agencies in the disclosure of corruption offences,” Budi said at the press conference at the Metro Jaya Regional Police Headquarters in South Jakarta.
During the press conference, he was seen seated at the same table as the Director of Enforcement of the National Police’s Anti-Tipidkor Task Force, Brigadier General Robertus Yohanes De Deo, and the Director of Special Crimes at Metro Jaya Regional Police, Senior Commissioner Victor Dean Mackbon.
Budi explained that investigators from the joint team of the Special Crimes Directorate of the Metro Jaya Regional Police and the National Police’s Anti-Tipidkor Task Force were continuing their investigation into the cases.
“We will announce the suspects in these cases at the next stage. At present, our fellow investigators are still carrying out in-depth inquiries,” Budi said.
“We mutually respect and give space to our fellow investigators to complete their work comprehensively and thoroughly. We will announce this to everyone in the near future,” he continued.
Earlier, the Head of the National Police’s Anti-Tipidkor Task Force, Inspector General Totok Suharyanto, explained that there were three corruption cases being handled through a joint investigation mechanism with the Metro Jaya Regional Police.
“The handling of the corruption and money laundering cases in the legal process against the PLN BB case, then the Asabri case from 2020 to 2025, and the alleged corruption in the debt settlement process of PT CBS to PT KNI (a subsidiary of Krakatau Steel) from 2020 to 2025,” he told journalists at a search location in Cipete.
In connection with these cases, investigators have searched 13 locations across Jakarta as far as Sentul, Bogor, West Java. A number of pieces of evidence — including cash in various currencies such as US and Singapore dollars, as well as gold bullion weighing tens of kilogrammes — were secured by police during the searches.