IDR 7.4 Billion Currency Exchange Documents Become Evidence of the Case of Firli Bahuri Extorting SYL

KPK Chairman Firli Bahuri/PHOTO DOC.: Wardhany Tsa Tsia-VOI

JAKARTA - Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Chairman Firli Bahuri has been named a suspect in the alleged extortion case against the former Minister of Agriculture, Syahrul Yasin Limpo. This determination was based on several pieces of evidence, one of which was a foreign exchange document worth IDR 7.4 billion.

"Forex exchange documents in SGD and USD denominations from several money changer outlets with a total value of IDR 7,468,711,500 from February 2021 to September 2023," said the Director of Special Criminal Investigation at Polda Metro Jaya Kombes Ade Safri Simanjuntak to journalists, Wednesday, November 22.

However, it was not clearly explained regarding the foreign exchange documents indicating the value of the alleged extortion carried out by Firli Bahuri against Syahrul Yasin Limpo.

It was only submitted that the document was the result of the confiscation and was one of the bases for determining the suspect.

"That is the evidence we confiscated, related to the investigation material, we will update it later," he said.

Returning to the evidence, investigators also confiscated derivatives or copies of search minutes, confiscation minutes, minutes of safekeeping of found evidence, and confiscation receipts at the official residence of the Indonesian Minister of Agriculture. The document contains a disposition sheet for the KPK leadership with agenda number LY1231, dated April 28 2021.

There is also evidence of clothing belonging to Syahrul Yasin Limpo. The former Minister of Agriculture wore this clothing when he met Firli Bahuri at the Badminton Sports Arena (GOR) on March 2 2022.

"One external hard disk or SSD has also been confiscated from the handover of the Indonesian Corruption Eradication Commission containing data extraction derivatives from electronic evidence which has been confiscated by the Indonesian Corruption Eradication Committee," said Ade.

Firli Bahuri was officially named a suspect based on the results of the case held on Wednesday, November 22, afternoon.

In this case, Firli was charged under Article 12e, 12B or Article 11 of Law number 31 of 1999 concerning the eradication of criminal acts of corruption in conjunction with Article 65 of the Criminal Code. Thus, he is threatened with life imprisonment.