Anti-graft activists challenged Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) investigators to track down those who were behind Miranda Goeltom’s central bank senior deputy governor’s candidacy’s bribery case.
“KPK investigators must really work hard this time to prove the owner of that money,” Emerson Yuntho of the Indonesian Corruption Watch (ICW) told The Jakarta Post on Sunday.
He said the KPK should think of creative measures to ensure that they would seize evidence that would reveal those who were behind the scandal.
Rumors have been widely circulated among journalists stating that the alleged Rp 24 billion bribe belonged to certain business groups who had their own interests behind Miranda’s candidacy.
Similarly, Ucok Sky Khadafie from FITRA, an NGO that concerned about state budget transparency, said that he was in doubt that the KPK would be able to uncover the identity of the people who offered the bribe money.
“Judging from what had been done, it is likely that the KPK would lose stamina in pursuing the actors behind the bribery case,” he said.
As of now, there are more than 25 people, comprising lawmakers and former public officials who had been sentenced to prison. Some of them had been released because of this case. The case was first opened by Agus Chondro, a former lawmaker from the Indonesia Democratic Party of Struggle(PDIP).
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