MAKI Asks KPK To Immediately Check Bobby Nasution: Typhoon Ginting Is A Close Person

The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has been asked to immediately summon North Sumatra Governor Bobby Nasution regarding the bribery case for road construction projects at the PUPR Service and PJN Satker Region 1 North Sumatra.

Coordinator of the Indonesian Anti-Corruption Society (MAKI) Boyamin Saiman assessed that the son-in-law of the 7th President of the Republic of Indonesia must be questioned because one of the suspects, Typhoon Obaja Putra Ginting or Typhoon Ginting as the Head of Public Works and Housing of North Sumatra Province, is suspected to be close to him. He said, this figure has been attached since Bobby ran for mayor of Medan.

"This token is as close as I have been to Bobby since the 2020 campaign era, the mayor's campaign," Boyamin told reporters, Monday, June 30.

"He is suspected of jumping directly to become the Head of the PUPR Service because he is a successful team," he continued.

Boyamin said Bobby's summons was also to improve the image of the KPK. Moreover, in a number of corruption cases, investigators usually call regional heads whose subordinates are caught in corruption.

"In fact, usually, if the KPK arrests the head of the service or echelon two so far, it targets the regional head. If they don't get hit by the regional head, they don't want to," he said.

As previously reported, the KPK held a hand arrest operation (OTT) in the North Sumatra region on Thursday, June 26. It is suspected that money was given in the road construction project in the province.

From this activity, five people were finally named as suspects. They are the Head of the Public Works and Spatial Planning Service (PUPR) Topan Obaja Putra Ginting or Topan Ginting; Effendi Siregar Rasul as the Head of the UPTD Gunung Tua North Sumatra Province PUPR Service concurrently the Commitment Making Officer (PPK); Heliyanto as PPK PJN Satker Region I North Sumatra Province; M. Akhirun Efendi Siregar as the President Director of PT DNG; and M. Rayhan Dulasmi PIlang as the Director of PT RN.

The Typhoon was inaugurated as Head of PUPR on February 24 by the Governor of North Sumatra Bobby Nasution. He previously served as Head of the Public Works Service or the Department of Water Resources, Highways and Construction Development of Medan City and had sat as Acting (Plt) Medan City Secretary when the son-in-law of the 7th President of the Republic of Indonesia sat as Mayor of Medan.

Setelah ditetapkan jadi tersangka, Topan bersama empat orang lainnya akan ditahan di Rutan KPK. Upaya paksa ini dilaksanakan selama 20 hari pertama dan akan diperpanjang sesuai kebutuhan penyidik.