Asep Guntur Reveals The Moment Of Fail To Arrest Paulus Tannos: Already Faced Can't Execute

Acting Deputy for Enforcement and Execution of the KPK Asep Guntur. (Tsa Tsia-VOI)

Acting Deputy for Enforcement and Execution of the KPK Asep Guntur said he had faced a fugitive in a corruption case in the procurement of electronic ID cards and e-KTPs, Paulus Tannos. At that time he was asked to lead the arrest.

"I myself was asked by the leadership to come to a neighboring country with the information we received," Asep told reporters at the KPK's Red and White House, Kuningan Persada, South Jakarta, Friday, August 11.

However, Asep had to go home empty-handed even though he was already faced with his fugitive. The reason is that Paul had changed his identity at that time.

"We have also faced the person concerned but we cannot carry out the execution," he said.

"Because the fact is that his passport is new to one of the countries in Africa and his name is already another. Not Paulus Tannos," continued Asep.

Asep said at that time he had shown local authorities that the person in front of him was the fugitive he was looking for. "Sir, Mister, this is the same photo. But in reality when viewed in the document, the name is different and he is not an Indonesian citizen," he said.

Asep said, Paul actually had another passport, namely from one of the countries in South Africa that was used to travel.

"He (Paulus Tannos, ed) has two citizenships because there are countries that can have two citizenships, one of which is in the African country," he explained.

Paulus Tannos was announced as a suspect in the development of the e-KTP corruption case on August 13, 2019. The company he leads, PT Sandipala Arthapura, is suspected of being enriched by Rp145.85 billion through the project.

In this case, Paul is suspected of holding a meeting to discuss winning the PNRI consortium. Then it was agreed that there would be a fee of 5 percent as well as a fee sharing scheme that would be given to several members of the DPR RI and officials at the Ministry of Home Affairs.