JAKARTA - Investigators from the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) searched a number of rooms at the North Penajam Paser Regency Government Office, East Kalimantan, after Regent Abdul Gafur Mas'ud became a suspect after being caught in the act of accepting bribes and gratuities.
Quoted from Antara, Monday, January 17, at around 10:00 WITA, KPK officers accompanied by fully armed police conducted a search of a number of rooms at the Penajam Regency Government Office as a step to develop a corruption case involving the head of the local area.
The search at the Regional Secretariat Office of North Penajam Paser Regency was carried out in the regent's office and the regional secretary's office.
Then a search was carried out at the Public Works and Spatial Planning Office as well as the Education, Youth and Sports Office.
The office of the North Penajam Paser Regent, which is located on Jalan Unocal, Penajam Village, Penajam District, was also searched by KPK officers.
The officials who were asked to be witnesses when the KPK conducted the search were Assistant II of the Regional Secretariat Ahmad Usman, Head of the Legal and Human Rights Division Pitono, and Acting Head of Satpol PP Muhtar.
"Three people from the KPK team are scattered into three different rooms," said Assistant II for the Economy and Development of the North Penajam Paser Regency Secretariat, Ahmad Usman when confirmed.
"The search carried out by KPK officers is tentative and it is not certain how many days the search will be carried out," he added.
The North Penajam Paser Regency Government cooperated with the search carried out by the KPK officers.
KPK officers asked for a number of files, such as SK (Decree) of the Regent and Deputy Regent, as well as DPA (budget implementing documents) for the last three years.
"The documents requested by the DPA for the last three years are all from related agencies, as well as the Decree of the Regent and Deputy Regent," said the Acting Head of the North Penajam Paser Regency Satpol PP, Muhtar.
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