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KPK arrests former BPK commissioner for questioning
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Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) chairman Firli Bahuri speaks during a meeting with the lawmakers of House of Representatives commission III overseeing legal affairs in the House compound in Jakarta on Thursday, June 25, 2020. (Antara/Muhammad Adimaja)
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he Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has detained former commissioner of the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK), Rizal Djalil, for alleged bribery in relation to a potable water treatment system (SPAM) project at the Public Works and Housing Ministry for the 2017-2018 budget year.
“For investigation purposes, the KPK detained the suspect for at least 20 days from Dec. 3, 2020 until Dec. 22, 2020,” KPK deputy chief Nurul Ghufron said on Thursday, as quoted by kompas.com.
Rizal is the first among the alleged suspects in the case of the SPAM procurement project at the ministry.
Rizal allegedly accepted S$100,000 (US$74,958) from PT Minarta Dutahutama president commissioner Leonardo Jusminarta Prasetyo, who was also named a suspect in the case and had also been detained.
According to the KPK, Rizal allegedly summoned the SPAM director to his office and said there would be someone to represent him.
The representative then told the director of Rizal’s intention to take part in the main SPAM distribution network (JDU) in Hungary worth Rp 79.27 billion ($5.6 million).
Rizal reportedly summoned the director after the BPK found Rp 18 billion worth of irregularities, which was later revised to Rp 4.2 billion, during an audit signed off by Rizal in October 2016.
However, back in September 2019, Rizal denied revising the audit. “The SPAM investigation report (LHP) was issued in accordance with the prevailing regulations; I did not change even one letter or number in it,” he said after questioning at the KPK on Oct. 9, 2019.
“If anyone still questions it then I stand ready to face the parties leveling such accusations.”
At the time, he also said his status as a suspect had no correlation with the BPK as an institution, and that the agency had recouped Rp 158 trillion for the state by the end of 2018.
PT Minarta Dutahutama was later handed the project in return for Leonardo allegedly promising to give Rizal Rp 1.3 billion in Singaporean currency.
The KPK named Rizal and Leonardo suspects in September last year, and requested that the Immigration Directorate General issue a six-month travel ban for both Rizal and Leonardo since an investigation was opened on Sept. 20. (ami)
