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Firli survives another ethics breach probe
This is not the first time the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) chief was accused of an ethics breach.
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Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) chairman Firli Bahuri greets journalists before giving a press conference on an alleged graft case pertaining to a fictitious project of state-owned construction firm PT Waskita Karya at the KPK headquarters in Jakarta on July 23, 2020. (Antara/M. Risyal Hidayat)
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orruption Eradication Commission (KPK) chairman Firli Bahuri has survived another ethics scandal after the agency’s supervisory board on Monday dropped its probe into the allegations that he had leaked internal documents regarding a corruption investigation into the Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry.
"The supervisory board concluded that there was not enough evidence to proceed against Firli Bahuri to be brought to an ethics hearing," board member Tumpak Hatorangan Panggabean said.
At least 30 people were questioned by the board, including five KPK leaders and the Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry's Deputy Inspector General M. Idris Froyoto Sihite, who claimed to have received documents from the controversial KPK chairman.
The report was based on a video footage that was circulating on social media in April. The footage purportedly shows KPK investigators finding KPK’s investigation documents while searching the ministry’s building. A KPK investigator then asked Idris how he obtained the documents, to which he said, “the minister obtained the documents from Pak Firli,” referring to the Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Arifin Tasrif.
The board confirmed that the video footage circulating online was authentic, but it did not find evidence that the energy minister had ordered Idris to contact Firli.
Idris, it said, had also clarified that he actually obtained the said documents from a businessman, identified only as Suryo, at the Sari Pan Pacific hotel in Central Jakarta.
The board also concluded that the documents were not KPK documents, saying they use a different font from the one used in KPK official documents.
