JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) seized tens of millions of rupiah when searching the office of the former Deputy Minister of Immigration and Corrections (Imipas) Silmy Karim on Tuesday, June 9. This forced effort is related to alleged extortion and gratification of foreign citizen residence permits (WNA).
"From the search at the Immigration office, namely the deputy minister's room, investigators secured evidence in the form of documents, electronic evidence, and tens of millions of rupiah," said KPK spokesman Budi Prasetyo through his written statement, Wednesday, June 10.
Budi explained that investigators also searched the West Jakarta Immigration Office. From this activity, investigators seized evidence in the form of documents and electronic evidence.
Meanwhile, from another location, the Head of the Regional Office (Kakanwil) of the West Java Immigration Directorate General who previously served as the Director of Residence Permits and Immigration Status of the Immigration Directorate General Jaya Saputra who was a suspect, also confiscated documents.
"In the continuation of the investigation of the case related to the alleged extortion in the management of immigration documents, this week the investigators focused on carrying out a series of search activities."
The KPK previously named eight suspects from a hand-in-hand operation (OTT) related to the residence permits of foreign nationals (WNA) in the environment of the Ministry of Immigration and Correction on Wednesday, June 3. The details are as follows:
1. Wamen Imipas 2025-2026 who is also Director General (Dirjen) Imipas 2023-2024 Silmy Karim; 2. Acting Director General of Immigration 2024-2025 Saffar Muhammad Godam; 3. Head of the Regional Office (Kakanwil) of the Directorate General of Immigration West Java who previously served as Director of Residence Permits and Immigration Status of the Immigration Directorate Jaya Saputra; 4. Sub-Directorate of Residence Permit Status in the Directorate of Residence Permits and Immigration Status of the Immigration Directorate Tessar Bayu Setyaji; 5. Sub-Directorate in the Directorate of Residence Permits Bagus Bramantyo; 6. Head of the Central Jakarta Immigration Office 2024-2025 and Head of the Class I Immigration Office for Non-TPI West Jakarta 2025-2026 Ronald Arman Abdullah; 7. Chairman of the ITAS Status Transfer Team Juniadi Sri Priambudi; and 8. Staff of the Residence Permit Sub-Directorate Gusti Benardiansyah.
During the raid, the police seized evidence worth Rp1.5 billion, including 7 units of cars, 15 units of motorcycles, 11 units of bicycles, balances in bank accounts and crypto asset accounts, as well as a number of foreign currencies.
Then, the KPK also seized several units of bicycles; 4 large motor units, three of which are Harley-Davidson; 2 red and silver Porsche 911 cars; and 5 vespa matic motorcycles from Silmy Karim's house in Kebayoran Baru, South Jakarta on Friday, June 5. All of these items were taken to the State Seized Property Storage House (Rupbasan) Cawang, East Jakarta.
Silmy is said to have received money from the extortion of the management of residence permits for foreign nationals (WNA) since the Director General of Immigration for the period 2023-2024. He even continued to receive it even though he had been sworn in as Deputy Minister of Immigration and Corrections (Imipas).
The receipt made by Silmy was worth Rp. 100 million per week. As a result of his actions, he and seven other suspects were suspected of violating Article 12 letter e and/or Article 12B of Law Number 31 of 1999 concerning Eradication of Corruption Crimes as amended by Law Number 20 of 2001 concerning Eradication of Corruption Crimes Jo. Article 20 letter c of Law No. 1 of 2023 concerning the Criminal Code.
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