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KPK may get a shot at Gayus
The antigraft body and the Judicial Mafia Taskforce will attend next week’s National Police discussion of the Gayus H
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he antigraft body and the Judicial Mafia Taskforce will attend next week’s National Police discussion of the Gayus H. Tambunan investigation, indicating their possible involvement in the inquiry, a taskforce member says.
“The taskforce and the Corruption Eradication Commission [KPK] have discussed that there must be coordination in handling the Gayus case,” taskforce secretary Denny Indrayana said on Friday.
“We plan to take advantage of the National Police’s invitation to attend the meeting to discuss their investigation next Tuesday,” Denny said.
Denny said the meeting would determine the future handling of the case, including the possibility of handing over a part of the investigation to the KPK.
The police said earlier on Friday that they were ready to allow relevant government institutions to attend their discussion of the Gayus investigation, which involves the many allegations aimed at the highprofile graft suspect.
The former low-ranking tax officer has been implicated in bribery scandals involving a judge, prosecutors and police officers. He is also alleged to have extorted money from private sector companies in exchange for lenient taxation, which the police have not yet proved.
The presentation, also to be attended by representatives from the Attorney General’s Office and the Financial
Transaction Reports Analysis Center (PPATK), is a response to mounting public criticism and distrust of the police’s handling of the Gayus investigation, National Police spokesman Insp. Gen. Iskandar Hasan said.
Some have called for the police to hand the case over to the KPK as the scandal has grown so large. Those
calls have grown louder following recent reports that Gayus bribed police officers in order to leave a police
detention center in Kelapa Dua, Depok, West Java.
Gayus was spotted by journalists watching an international tennis match in Bali. The ensuing investigation
has implicated nine police officers, including the detention center head, for taking a total of Rp 368 million (US$41,200) in bribes to allow Gayus to leave his cell 68 times.
The police’s presentation would cover all the cases involving Gayus, Iskandar said. “This will cover the judicial mafia, the tax mafia and the bribery cases with on-duty officers at the detention center,” he said, as quoted by Tempo news portal.
KPK deputy chief Bibit Samad Rianto said his office had been ready to handle the case from the beginning. “If the police are ready, that is good,” Bibit said.
Until now, the KPK has taken no definitive action to take over the case.
The public should wait until next week’s meeting when there should be a clear decision about whether the KPK will investigate the Gayus case or not, KPK deputy Chandra M. Hamzah said.
“The KPK needs to know what investigations other institutions have done, which will be revealed next week,” Chandra said. (ipa)
