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KPK to name 10 suspects in alleged graft at Energy Ministry
The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has identified 10 suspects in an alleged graft case involving the Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry employee performance allowances for the 2020-2022 fiscal year, but has yet to disclose their identities.
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Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Arifin Tasrif speaks during a video conference with members of the House of Representative Commission VII overseeing energy on May 4, 2020. (JP/Screenshot)
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he Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has identified 10 suspects in an alleged graft case involving the Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) Ministry employee performance allowances for the 2020-2022 fiscal year, but has yet to disclose their identities.
KPK director for investigation Asep Guntur Rahayu said that based on the latest investigations of the case, there were likely 10 suspects in the case suspected to be within the ranks of the ministry’s finance department.
He said the suspects conducted their crimes by intentionally mistyping the amount of employees’ personal allowance.
“For example, the performance allowance is supposed to be Rp 5 million but they typed in Rp 50 million [US$3,341], and when they got caught they would say ‘oh, there’s a typo.’ But in reality, Rp 50 million had already been transferred,” Asep said on Thursday, as quoted by Kompas.
The KPK has yet to request for the Immigration Directorate General of the Law and Human Rights Ministry to bar the 10 suspects from going abroad, saying that so far the suspects were still willing to cooperate with the authorities.
KPK spokesperson Ali Fikri said that on Thursday the KPK had summoned the energy ministry's acting minerals and coal director general M. Idris Froyoto Sihite for questioning as a witness, but he failed to answer the summons.
“We are rescheduling the questioning and the KPK hopes that the person in question will cooperate,” Ali Fikri said in a statement on Friday.
