KPK Summons 6 Customs Officers To Clarify Wealth

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The Corruption Eradication Commission will invite six officials from the Directorate General of Customs and Excise of the Ministry of Finance to be asked for clarification regarding the State Administration Wealth Report (LHKPN).

"There are five or six. If I have investigated, I will definitely tell you," said Deputy for Prevention and Monitoring of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Pahala Nainggolan as reported by ANTARA, Tuesday, July 19.

However, Pahala has not disclosed the names of Customs and Excise officials who will be invited to clarify LHKPN or when the officials will undergo clarification.

Pahala said that Customs and Excise officials who were invited to provide LHKPN clarification were officials with assets that were considered odd by anti-corruption agencies.

"Natured, what does it mean? If he is really big, it's not necessarily odd if he has an inheritance. But, we'll just take it, we'll see all the accounts, we'll hear all the information from the field. If there are other assets that haven't been mentioned, we will analyze the reasonableness of his property. There is income, there is expenditure. If he has big assets, where should we buy them from. We go back," said Pahala.

The KPK has so far investigated two cases involving officials from the Directorate General of Customs and Excise at the Ministry of Finance, which originated from the LHKPN clarification. The first is the Head of the Yogyakarta Customs and Excise Office, Eko Darmanto, whose case is currently still under investigation.

The second is the former Head of the Makassar Customs and Excise Office Andhi Pramono who has entered the investigation stage and has been named a suspect in the case of alleged receipt of gratuities and money laundering (TPPU).

KPK investigators revealed that Andhi Pramono was suspected of receiving gratuities of up to Rp28 billion by abusing his position of authority while serving at the Directorate General of Customs and Excise.

Andhi Pramono is suspected of using his position to act as a broker and providing recommendations for entrepreneurs engaged in import exports so that later it can be made easier to carry out their business activities.

From his recommendations and brokers' actions, AP is suspected of receiving a fee fee in return.

For his actions, the suspect AP was charged with Article 12B of Law Number 31 of 1999 as amended by Law Number 20 of 2001 concerning the Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption, in conjunction with Article 55 paragraph (1) 1st of the Criminal Code.

The suspect AP was also charged with Article 2 paragraph (1) and Article 3 of Law Number 8 of 2010 concerning the Prevention and Eradication of the Crime of Money Laundering (TPPU).