Received Luxury Money-Security Watch PDIP Legislator Sub-Department From SYL Will Be Followed Up By KPK

Acting (Plt) Deputy for Enforcement and Execution of the KPK Asep Guntur Rahayu (Tsa Tsia/VOI)

The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) will follow up on the facts of the trial of alleged extortion and acceptance of gratuities that ensnared former Minister of Agriculture (Mentan) Syahrul Yasin Limpo (SYL). One of them was the receipt of money to luxury watches by the Sub-Department as Chairman of Commission IV of the DPR RI for the 2019-2024 period.

Acting (Plt) Deputy for Enforcement and Execution of the KPK Asep Guntur Rahayu said the follow-up to the receipt would be carried out after the information was collected.

"We are gathering other information, we will follow up later," Asep told reporters quoted on Thursday, August 7.

Asep also confirmed that his party would investigate other allegations of corruption at the Ministry of Agriculture, including the alleged involvement of legislative members.

The anti-corruption commission is still procuring rubber processing facilities for 2021-2023 and procuring X-ray machines at the Ministry of Agriculture's Agricultural Quarantine Agency.

"Regarding other procurements, there is formic acid, then the procurement of other x-ray dams that are related, mentioned earlier from the legislature, of course we will deepen, including luxury watches and others," said Asep, who also serves as Director of KPK Investigations.

The name of the Sudin, who is a PDIP legislator, is known to have appeared in the trial of the extortion and acceptance of gratuities at the Ministry of Agriculture that ensnared SYL. He is said to have received Rp. 100 million in cash to a luxury watch prize for Rp. 100 million.

This statement was conveyed by Panji Hartanto who is SYL's aide. He once testified at the Jakarta Corruption Court on April 17, 2024.

The Sudin was then examined in the process of investigating the SYL corruption case on November 15, 2023. His house in the Raffles Hills area, Cimanggis, Depok, West Java has also been searched by KPK investigators.

As previously reported, the former Minister of Agriculture Syahrul Yasin Limpo is currently a suspect in alleged money laundering. This step was taken after the development of cases of extortion and acceptance of gratuities that had been convicted by the Jakarta Corruption Court.

A number of assets allegedly purchased by Syahrul from corruption have been confiscated by the KPK. Among them are a white Mitsubishi Sport Dakar hidden in an empty land in the Makassar area, South Sulawesi.

Recently, SYL has been sent to the Sukamiskin Penitentiary (Lapas), Bandung, West Java. He will serve a 12-year prison sentence for guilt in cases of extortion and acceptance of gratuities at the Ministry of Agriculture.

SYL was also sentenced to pay a fine of IDR 500 million, subsidiary to four months in prison plus compensation of IDR 44,269,777,204 and 30 thousand US dollars, subsidiary to five years in prison.