JAKARTA - Former Commissioner of the General Elections Commission (KPU), Wahyu Setiawan admitted that he did not know the source of bribes for managing the interim replacement (PAW) of the DPR RI 2019-2024 Harun Masiku.
This confession was conveyed when he was presented as a witness at the trial of the alleged obstruction of the investigation and bribery of the management of PAW members of the DPR for the 2019-2024 period for the defendant of the Secretary General of PDIP, Hasto Kristiyanto.
It started when the prosecutor sought Wahyu regarding the source of the money he received from a former member of the Election Supervisory Body (Bawaslu), Agustiani Tio.
It is known that Tio received the money from Saiful Bahri, who is a PDIP cadre.
"Is it pure or comes from Saiful himself or is there someone else who wants to hand over the money to you?" asked the prosecutor during the trial, Thursday, April 17.
"I received an explanation from Mrs. Tio that the money was from Saiful because it was Mrs. Tio, not Saiful directly," answered Wahyu.
Wahyu conveyed the process of giving money, Tio as the giver did not explain the source of the money.
"Where did the money actually come from?" asked the KPK prosecutor.
"It was not explained at that time," said Wahyu.
Hearing this statement, the prosecutor felt strange and questioned it. Because, in the investigation report (BAP) Wahyu explained that the bribe money came from Hasto Kristiyanto.
"Meanwhile, in this trial, you said that you don't really know where (the source of the bribe that was revealed) came from. But in this BAP you can name the defendant Hasto Keistiyanto who is the Secretary General of PDIP related to the source," said the prosecutor.
Then Wahyu argued that Hasto's name was not a source of money but in the context of the official PDI-P application for Harun to qualify as a member of the Indonesian House of Representatives.
"But I don't know exactly where the source of the bribe I received came from. I can't say I know, even though I don't know," Wahyu said.
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For information, Hasto was charged with obstructing the investigation by ordering Harun, through the Aspiration House guard, Nur Hasan, to submerge Harun's cell phone into the water after the arrests by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) against members of the General Election Commission (KPU) for the 2017-2022 period Wahyu Setiawan.
Not only Harun Masiku's cellphone, Hasto is also said to have ordered his aide, Kusnadi, to drown his cell phone in anticipation of forced attempts by KPK investigators.
In addition to obstructing investigations, Hasto was also charged together with advocate Donny Tri Istiqomah; the former convict of the Harun Masiku case, Saeful Bahri; and Harun Masiku gave money amounting to 57,350 Singapore dollars or equivalent to Rp600 million to Wahyu in the 2019-2020 period.
The money is allegedly given with the aim that Wahyu strives for the KPU to approve the request for an interim replacement (PAW) for the Elected Legislative Candidate for the Electoral Region (Dapil) of South Sumatra (Sumsel) I on behalf of the Members of the DPR for the 2019-2024 period Riezky Aprilia to Harun Masiku.
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