The Corruption Eradication Commission Has Not Yet Trapped Former MA Secretary Nurhadi With The Money Laundering Article

JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has often said that it will charge the former Secretary of the Supreme Court (MA) with the article money laundering crime (TPPU). In fact, this has not been done so far.

Acting KPK spokesman for prosecution Ali Fikri claimed that his party would immediately charge Nurhadi with the TPPU Article. However, he could not say when the time was.

"We ensure that we will immediately apply the TPPU article in this case after the results of the evidence collection have been concluded that there is sufficient preliminary evidence," he said in a written statement, Wednesday, December 2.

Furthermore, he said the TPPU would be applied if there was preliminary evidence that was sufficiently suspicious, such as a change in form from the proceeds of corruption to assets with economic value such as property, vehicles, securities, and others.

Thus, the anti-graft commission is still conducting a review of the case that brought Nurhadi in. "We will immediately inform the progress," he said.

Previously reported, a number of parties such as Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) and Lokataru urged the KPK to apply TPPU against Nurhadi. This pressure arose because from the data they had collected, Nurhadi had an unreasonable wealth or it did not match 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 the Special Allowance for the Performance of 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.

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 guiding Nurhadi for 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.