KPK Confiscates Rp100 Billion In Bribery Case Related To Bakamla Project

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JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) confiscated around Rp. 100 billion from a number of bank accounts. This confiscation is related to the alleged bribery in managing the budget for the Maritime Security Agency (Bakamla) for the project to procure satellite monitoring and drones, which also ensnared the corporate suspect, PT Merial Esa.

"In handling the case with the suspect PT ME, the investigative team in the investigation process has confiscated around Rp. 100 billion in several bank accounts that are suspected to be related to the case," said Acting KPK Spokesperson for Enforcement Sector Ali Fikri to reporters, Monday, January 3.

Furthermore, the money will be confiscated as a form of asset recovery or asset recovery from corruption that has occurred.

For information, PT Merial Esa will also be tried in the bribery case. This step was taken after the PT Merial Esa investigation file had been declared complete.

In this case, PT Merial Esa is suspected of jointly giving something to state officials regarding the process of discussing and ratifying the budget in the 2016 APBN-P 2016 for Bakamla.

At that time, the company's commissioner was suspected of communicating with Member of Commission I DPR RI‎ from the Golkar faction, Fayakhun Andriadi to make the monitoring satellite project (satmon) in Bakamla included in the 2016 Revised State Budget.

From the meeting, he promised a commitment fee of seven percent, of which one percent was for Fayakhun.