KPK Is Still Investigating Allegations Of Money Laundering, Former MA Nurhadi's Secretary

JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) is still investigating the crime of money laundering (TPPU) allegedly committed by former Secretary of the Supreme Court (MA) Nurhadi.

Acting KPK spokesman for prosecution Ali Fikri said that his party had indeed obtained a number of evidences regarding Nurhadi's alleged money laundering but they still need time to conduct further studies.

"We have collected some evidence, but first we will investigate it further, especially with regard to predicate crime in this case," Ali said in a written statement, Wednesday, October 21.

Meanwhile, regarding the gratuity case that ensnared Nurhadi and his son-in-law, Riezky Herbiyono, the plan is that the first trial for the reading of the indictment will be held on Thursday, October 22 at the Central Jakarta Corruption Court.

"In accordance with the decision of the Panel of Judges at the Central Jakarta Corruption Court, the initial trial on behalf of the defendant Nurhadi et al with the agenda of reading the indictment will be held on Thursday, October 22 at 10.00 WIB," he said.

It is known that the Public Relations of the Central Jakarta District Court, Bambang Nurchayo, has also confirmed that the trial will be held on Thursday this week. He said the trial would be chaired by Saefudin Zuhri as chairman of the panel of judges and Duta Baskara and Sukartono as member judges.

In this case, the KPK charged both with Article 12 A or Article 11 of the Corruption Crime Law and Article 12 B of the Corruption Crime Law.

Meanwhile, Nurhadi and his son-in-law were named by the KPK as suspects in the alleged bribery and gratuity case of Rp. 46 billion. The suspect was named when the KPK was still chaired by Agus Rahardjo.

The bribe is suspected to be related to the processing of civil cases at the Supreme Court. Meanwhile, regarding gratuities, Nurhadi is suspected of receiving prizes related to the handling of land dispute cases at the cassation level and a judicial review at the Supreme Court.

Previously, a number of parties such as Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) and Lokataru had indeed urged the KPK to apply TPPU against Nurhadi. This pressure arose because from the data they had collected, Nurhadi had an unusual or inappropriate wealth when viewed from the official income of a Supreme Court Secretary. .

In the data, at least several assets allegedly belonged to Nurhadi, such as seven land and building assets with a value of hundreds of billions of rupiah; four oil palm business areas; eight legal entities either in the form of PT or UD; 12 luxury cars; and 12 luxury watches.

In fact, based on the Decree of the Supreme Court Number 128 / KMA / SK / VIII / 2014 concerning Special Performance Allowances for Civil Servants in the Supreme Court and the Judiciary Bodies under it, it is stated that the position of Secretary of the Supreme Court as echelon 1 gets a special allowance of IDR 32,865,000. Meanwhile, the basic salary for echelon I officials is around Rp. 19 million.

"So it is reasonable to suspect that these assets were obtained from corruption," said ICW researcher Kurnia Ramadhana in a written statement, Wednesday, July 22.

With these facts, Kurnia emphasized that the KPK should not only stop at the allegation of bribery and gratuity. He continued, the anti-graft agency should have started an investigation to get into the possibility of charging Nurhadi with money laundering.

"Not only that, the KPK is also expected to be able to investigate the potential of Nurhadi's closest parties to receive benefits for the crimes he committed," he said.