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National scene: Police calculate state losses in Pelindo case
The National Police are still calculating state losses inflicted by corruption cases revolving around operator PT Pelindo II, which operates the countryâs biggest port, Tanjung Priok, North Jakarta
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he National Police are still calculating state losses inflicted by corruption cases revolving around operator PT Pelindo II, which operates the country's biggest port, Tanjung Priok, North Jakarta.
The police's director of economic crimes at the police's Detective Corps, Brig. Gen. Bambang Waskito, said that an on-going investigation into alleged graft in the procurement of 10 mobile cranes would not be disrupted by an inquiry that was under way at the House of Representatives.
Bambang said the police were still awaiting the calculation of the losses from the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK).
'We are continuing to work without disruption by the inquiry,' Bambang said on Sunday as quoted by tribunnews.com.
The Pelindo case turned political after then National Police detective division chief Comr. Gen. Budi Waseso was removed shortly after the police raided Pelindo's headquarters in North Jakarta on Aug. 28.
The wrangling forced Vice President Jusuf Kalla, then on a visit to South Korea, to personally phone Budi and demand the probe be dropped.
Sensing that the case may implicate members of President Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo's Cabinet, the House has stepped in to supervise and dig deeper into the case and later voted unanimously to launch the inquiry.
