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KPK detains House deputy speaker Taufik Kurniawan
“I will follow and respect the legal process at the KPK,” Taufik told the press.
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The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has detained House of Representatives deputy speaker and senior National Mandate Party (PAN) politician Taufik Kurniawan for alleged bribery in relation to the allocation of special allocation funds (DAK) in the 2016 fiscal year. (Antara/Dhemas Reviyanto)
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he Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has detained House of Representatives deputy speaker and senior National Mandate Party (PAN) politician Taufik Kurniawan for alleged bribery in relation to the allocation of special allocation funds (DAK) in the 2016 fiscal year.
“I will follow and respect the legal process at the KPK,” Taufik told journalists upon exiting the KPK headquarters in Jakarta on Friday.
Taufik was detained after undergoing a nine-hour questioning session at the antigraft body’s building. He unexpectedly arrived at the building on Friday at around 9 a.m., a day after he failed to answer the KPK’s second summons for questioning as a suspect in the case.
On Thursday, the lawmaker’s lawyer said Taufik could not answer the summons on Thursday because of a prior commitment in his electoral district, and requested the questioning be rescheduled to Nov. 8.
The antigraft body spokesman Febri Diansyah said investigators would detain Taufik at the KPK’s detention center in Jakarta.
Taufik is suspected of accepting bribes of at least Rp 3.65 billion (US$244,929) in 2016 from Muhamad Yahya Fuad, then regent of Kebumen in Central Java, in relation to the DAK allocation for the regency. Yahya was sentenced to four years behind bars in a related case.
Taufik is the second House leader to have been accused of bribery during President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s tenure after former speaker and Golkar Party politician Setya Novanto was found guilty of taking bribes in relation to the e-ID project. (swd)
