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Video appears to show evidence tampering in case implicating top cop
A new video released by independent whistleblower platform IndonesiaLeaks has shed new light on allegations that two police officers formerly seconded to the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) tampered with evidence of a graft case that implicated the nation’s top cop.
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Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) headquarters in South Jakarta. (JP/Wienda Parwitasari)
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new video released by independent whistleblower platform IndonesiaLeaks has shed new light on allegations that two police officers formerly seconded to the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) tampered with evidence in a graft case that implicated the nation’s top cop.
The footage of a CCTV recording obtained by IndonesiaLeaks’ investigation team around the middle of this year, purportedly shows police officers and former KPK investigators Adj. Sr. Comr. Roland Ronaldy and Comr. Harun ripping out several pages from a red financial records book.
The book was among the pieces of evidence confiscated in relation to a meat-import corruption case involving businessman Basuki Hariman and former Constitutional Court justice Patrialis Akbar ─ both were sentenced to jail in September 2017.
According to the CCTV’s recording timestamp, the incident occurred on April 7, 2017 ─ four days before unidentified assailants threw acid at top KPK investigator Novel Baswedan on April 11, 2017, in Jakarta, in an attack that caused serious injuries to his eyes.
The latest report by IndonesiaLeaks published on Thursday reveals that a week prior to Novel’s acid attack, there had been a meeting between National Police chief Gen. Tito Karnavian and Novel at the senior police officer’s house on Jl. Pattimura in Jakarta on April 4, 2017.
Novel met Tito as the former reportedly wanted to clarify circulating rumors at that time that KPK investigators had targeted the police chief in a graft case.
