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he Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has once again faced another terror threat with an unidentified assailant placing a bomb-like package at the house of one of its investigators, Apip Julian Miftah, who is currently working on a number of high profile graft cases at the antigraft body.

Earlier in February, some KPK investigators and its legal team members working on a number of high-profile bribery cases and the pretrial hearing of then National Police deputy chief Comr. Gen. Budi Gunawan received similar threats.

After receiving an order from President Joko '€œJokowi'€ Widodo, the National Police moved to investigate the threats but so far they have failed to find those responsible for them.

During a press conference at KPK headquarters on Monday, acting KPK commissioner Johan Budi confirmed that Apip was currently working on six high profile graft cases.

'€œThe investigator contacted the local police after he found the package in front of his house. Shortly thereafter, a bomb squad came to handle the package and later the squad found pieces of cable in it. The case in now being handled by the police,'€ Johan said.

Johan further stated that the antigraft body did not want to speculate whether the terror threat had any connection to the graft cases handled by Apip, adding that prior to the threat, the investigator also faced some incidents of intimidation from unidentified people.

'€œFor example, someone slashed his car'€™s tires and acid was poured on his car'€™s windshield,'€ Johan said, adding that the KPK had worked with the police to ensure the safety of Apip following the incident.

Apip'€™s house is located in Bekasi, one of Jakarta'€™s satellite cities. Bekasi is under the jurisdiction of the Jakarta Police.

After receiving reports about the threat, National Police chief Comr. Gen. Badrodin directly instructed Jakarta Police chief Insp. Gen. Tito Karnavian to investigate the terror threat, adding that the Jakarta Police office had sent a number of personnel to Apip'€™s home following news about the incident.

'€œI have given an order to the Jakarta police chief to find the perpetrator,'€ Badrodin said at the State Palace on Monday.

Meanwhile, Bekasi police spokesman Adj. Sr. Comr. Siswo said that Apip reported the threat to the Bekasi police shortly after the KPK investigator arrived at his home at 10 p.m. on Sunday. Siswo also confirmed that it was not the first threat directed against Apip.

The KPK is currently investigating a number of high profiles cases including cases involving former Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) chief Hadi Poernomo, former Makassar mayor Ilham Arief Sirajuddin, former energy and minerals minister Jero Wacik and former religious affairs minister Suryadharma Ali.

The KPK is also currently stepping up efforts on the money laundering case of former Democratic Party treasurer Muhammad Nazauddin, who was convicted in a graft case in 2013.

The KPK is tracing the assets of Nazaruddin allegedly bought with dirty money he embezzled while serving as ruling party House of Representatives lawmaker under the leadership of former president Susilo Bambang Yuhoyono, the current chairman of the Democratic Party.

Earlier, Nazaruddin admitted that he and former Democratic Party chairman Anas Urbaningrum established a company called Permai Group to hide slush funds collected from ministries and state institutions led by Democratic Party politicians under the tenure of Yudhoyono. Every year, Permai Group collected up to Rp 800 billion from allegedly rigging state projects.