Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) chief Tumpak Hatorangan Panggabean said the commission was currently looking at the possibility of building a graft case against Anggodo Widjojo.
“Our investigators are right now focusing on this,” he said as quoted by news portal detik.com on Wednesday.
The statement was made following the KPK’s decision to ban Anggodo from traveling abroad after it was suspected that he was implicated in a graft case involving PT Masaro Radiokom, which
is currently being investigated by the KPK.
The graft case against Masaro previously implicated Anggodo’s brother, Anggoro Widjojo, who was named as a suspect by the KPK.
Anggoro has escaped and is currently believed to be in Singapore.
Anggoro is suspected to have given bribes to several high-ranking officials at the Forestry Ministry in order to win an integrated radio communication system tender.
Anggodo was first involved in the case after he was sent by Anggoro to offer bribes to the KPK leaders.
Instead of distributing the funds himself, Anggodo gave the money to Ari Muladi, one of his accomplices, who claimed to know the KPK officials well.
However, Ari denied ever directly giving money to the KPK leaders.
Ari claimed to have given the funds to a third party, Julianto, who has not yet been located.
Commenting on the plan to build a case against Anggodo, his lawyer Bonaran Situmeang said he hardly understood what the KPK’s intentions were as he was convinced that his client was not involved in any corruption.
“Once we heard the news that Anggodo was banned from traveling abroad, I was confused in so far as Anggodo was not accused of any crimes by the KPK or the police.
“Therefore, the KPK’s statement that they were starting to investigate Anggodo’s involvement in the graft case is somewhat disrespectful of the President’s earlier statement ordering law enforcers to halt the investigation of [KPK deputy chairmen] Bibit Samad Rianto and Chandra M. Hamzah, in which my client is involved.”
Bonaran said he was waiting for the KPK to halt every attempt to investigate his client’s involvement in the graft case.
“Or else we will file a case against the issuance of the letter halting the investigation of Bibit and Chandra,” he said.
Anggodo has been implicated in a plot to frame Bibit and Chandra together with high-ranking officers at the National Police and the Attorney General’s Office.
