KPK Is Investigating Rahmat Effendi's Orders Regarding Projects And The Flow Of Money From Employee Funding Cuts At The Bekasi City Government

Rahmat Effendi (DOK VOI/Wardhany Tsa Tsia) corruption case released by the Mayor of Bekasi

JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has finished examining nine witnesses related to the alleged bribery of the inactive Bekasi Mayor Rahmat Effendi or Pepen. During the examination, investigators studied a number of things, including directives and direct orders related to the project.

This investigation was carried out by examining a number of witnesses. They are the Regional Secretary of the Bekasi City Government, Reny Hendrawati; Office of Women's Empowerment and Child Protection (DP3A); the sub-district head of Rawa Lumbu, Makhfud Syaifudin; PPK in Bekasi Giyarto City Government; Head of BPBD Bekasi City, Nurcholis; to the aide to the Mayor of Bekasi Andi Kristanto.

"Witnesses were present and confirmed, among other things, related to the alleged directives and orders from Tsk RE to determine certain projects whose budgets are managed by the Bekasi City Government," Acting KPK Spokesperson for Enforcement Affairs Ali Fikri told reporters, Monday, January 17.

Not only that, Ali said that the investigation into the flow of money from employees at the Bekasi City Government was also the focus of the investigators.

"In addition, it is also investigated regarding the alleged flow of a sum of money enjoyed by the suspect RE and related parties that came from deductions from several employees' funds," he said.

Apart from them, there were two other witnesses who were examined, namely private parties named Sherly and Intan. Unlike the names above, the focus of the examination of the two is related to the cooperation contract with the Bekasi City Government and the alleged unilateral termination of the land acquisition contract.

"These two witnesses were also present and confirmed, among others, related to the cooperation contract with the Bekasi City Government in the context of land acquisition and the alleged unilateral termination of the contract for the land acquisition," Ali explained.

Actually, the KPK will examine another witness named Lisda who is the Head Witness of BP3KB. However, Ali said he was not present at the scheduled examination.

"Lisda, the Head of BP3KB was not present and immediately rescheduled," he said.

As previously reported, the KPK has named Rahmat Effendi or Pepen along with eight other people as suspects in the alleged bribery in the procurement of goods and services as well as the auction of positions in the Bekasi City Government.

Pepen is suspected of receiving billions of rupiah as a commitment fee from the private sector whose land was acquired for a project belonging to the Bekasi City Government and received compensation. However, he called the money a mosque donation code.

In addition to the bribes above, the KPK also revealed that Pepen received money related to project management and contract labor at the Bekasi City Government in the amount of Rp. 30 million. The money was given by the Director of PT MAM Energindo, Ali Amril and received by the Secretary of the Investment Office and PTSP Bekasi City, M Bunyamin.

Later, he also received some money from employees at the Bekasi City Government in return for their position. However, it did not specify how much money the Golkar Party politician received.

However, the money found from the gifts given by the employees was only Rp600 million left when the silent operation was carried out. Allegedly, the money already exists which was used in part to meet its operational needs.