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78 KPK employees found guilty of ethics breach in prison illegal levies scandal
The KPK supervisory council has imposed a severe ethical punishment for the guilty employees: making a public apology that will be broadcast by the antigraft body.
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This aerial picture taken on Sept. 24, 2021 shows the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) building in Jakarta. (AFP/Bay Ismoyo)
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he Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) supervisory council found dozens of employees guilty of an ethics breach for soliciting illegal levies from detainees in exchange for prison perks.
On Thursday, the council ruled that 78 employees stationed at KPK detention centers were guilty of soliciting bribes, ordering them to make a public apology video to be broadcast by the antigraft body.
They solicited the illegal levies between 2018 and 2023 when guarding three detention centers for KPK suspects: the Merah Putih detention center located just behind the antigraft body’s headquarters, the C1 detention center in the KPK’s old building and another center at the Jakarta Military Police (Pomdam Jaya) Guntur Jaya; all in South Jakarta.
The council stated in its ruling that one of the aggravating factors was that the scandal led to a decline in the public trust in the antigraft body.
The punishment of making a public apology was a severe “moral punishment” according to the KPK supervisory council regulation on the antigraft body’s code of ethics, said council chairman Tumpak Hatorangan Panggabean.
While the council ruled on the case against 78 employees, it handed over the investigation against 12 other employees who allegedly accepted illegal levies from prisoners in 2018 to the KPK secretary-general.
“The other 12 cases were handed over to the KPK because their actions were carried out before the council was established,” Tumpak said in a press briefing on Thursday.
