JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has confirmed that it will continue to commit to former PDI-P legislative candidate Harun Masiku and three corruption suspects who are still at large. In fact, the anti-corruption commission said it would immediately make arrests after the COVID-19 pandemic subsided.
"What is clear is that the KPK is committed, not only to Harun Masiku but for all of us, we will immediately carry out arrests after the COVID-19 subsides," said KPK Deputy Chair Nurul Ghufron as quoted from the Indonesian KPK YouTube, Thursday, December 30.
Ghufron details that there are four fugitives that must be caught by his subordinates at this time. They are Harun Masiku who has been on the run since 2020; Surya Darmadi who is a fugitive since 2019; Izil Azhar has been fugitive since 2018; and Kirana Kotama who has been fugitive since 2017.
"That's from the side of the DPO, which we are still pursuing. Hopefully, after the COVID-19 subsides, we can more freely search for the DPO," he said.
For information, Harun is a former PDI-P candidate who bribed the former KPU commissioner Wahyu Setiawan. Meanwhile, Kirana Kotama is a suspect in the 2014 procurement of SSV vessels for the Philippine government involving PT PAL.
Next, Izil Azhar is a fugitive who was caught in the gratification case of the Governor of Aceh for the period 2007-2012 and Surya Darmadi who was caught in the bribery case over forest function in Riau Province.
Previously reported, the order to immediately arrest fugitives in corruption cases was conveyed by President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) at the opening of the 2021 World Anti-Corruption Day (Hakordia) event. At that time, he asked suspects who had fled at home and abroad to be pursued.
The arrests need to be made to restore state assets that have been confiscated by perpetrators of corruption. The former governor of DKI Jakarta even reminded that Indonesia has international cooperation agreements with other countries in this regard, including seizing assets belonging to corruptors.
"We also have several international collaborations for the return of assets for criminal acts, legal aid agreements, reciprocity in criminal matters, treats on mutual legal assistance. We have agreed with Switzerland and Russia," he said in front of the KPK chairman. Firli Bahuri and other high-ranking law enforcement officers during the Hakordia memorial at the KPK's Red and White Building, Kuningan Persada.
"They are ready to assist in tracing, freezing, confiscation, and confiscation of assets resulting from criminal acts abroad. Therefore, fugitive corrupt perpetrators can be pursued both at home and abroad, assets hidden by mafia, oil and gas mafia, port mafia , drug mafia, meat mafia, land mafia can continue to be pursued and the perpetrators can be brought to justice," he concluded.
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