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Police seize Red Book amid bribery allegations
The country's antigraft body said the National Police have taken documents, known as the Red Book, that reportedly contains proof that a bribery case is linked to their chief.
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National Police chief Gen. Tito Karnavian. (Antara/M Agung Rajasa)
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he red financial records book that has been the focus of an investigative report by independent whistle-blower platform IndonesiaLeaks was confiscated by police on Monday, the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) confirmed.
"KPK leaders have decided to give the two pieces of evidence [to the Jakarta Police] because of a court order from the South Jakarta District Court dated Oct. 23, 2018," KPK spokesperson Febri Diansyah said on Tuesday.
The Red Book was among the pieces of evidence confiscated for a graft case involving meat-importing businessman Basuki Hariman and former Constitutional Court justice Patrialis Akbar.
Patrialis was accused of accepting Rp 2 billion [$150,455] in fees from Basuki in return for making a favorable ruling on a petition against a 2014 law on husbandry and animal health. Basuki has since been sentenced to seven years in prison, while Patrialis received eight years imprisonment.
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The IndonesiaLeaks report published earlier this month said that CCTV footage allegedly showed two police officers — who were assigned as KPK investigators at the time — ripping out several pages of a book detailing transactions between Basuki and National Police chief Tito Karnavian.
Febri said according to a letter from Jakarta Police chief Insp. Gen. Idham Azis, the book was confiscated as part of the police's investigation into obstruction of justice in relation to a graft case.
The two police officers implicated by the report, Adj. Sr. Comr. Roland Ronaldy and Comr. Harun, both left the KPK a few months after the alleged incident took place and returned to the National Police.
Roland has since been promoted to Cirebon Police chief in West Java, while Harun is the head of a subdivision in the Jakarta Police's special crimes directorate. (kmt)
