KLHK Investigators Examine Langkat Regent Publishes Plan At KPK Regarding Ownership Of Protected Animals

Langkat Regent Published on KPK/Photo: VOI

JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) facilitated civil servant investigators (PPNS) of the Ministry of Environment and Forestry (KLHK) to examine the inactive Langkat Regent for the issuance of the Warin Angin Plan.

Examination relating to alleged criminal acts in the field of conservation of living natural resources and their ecosystems. Publish is suspected of having animals without a permit.

"The investigation was carried out by civil servant investigators at the Ministry of Environment and Forestry," Acting KPK Spokesperson for Enforcement Ali Fikri told reporters, Thursday, June 16.

Ali said the provision of this facility was carried out by his institution as a form of synergy between law enforcement officers.

"This inspection facility is a form of coordination and synergy between law enforcers," he said.

It was previously reported that KPK investigators had found protected endangered species when they searched Terbit's house. Furthermore, the North Sumatra BBKSDA confiscated the animal.

Acting (Plt) Head of the BBKSDA of North Sumatra Irzal Azhar explained that his party found several types of protected wildlife, namely one Sumatran Orang Utan (Pongo Abelii) and one Sulawesi Black Monkey (Cynopithecus Niger).

Next, the Brontok Eagle (Spizaetus Cirrhatus), two Bali Starlings (Leucopsar Rothschildi) and two parrots (Gracula Religiosa) were also confiscated.

As for these animals, Terbit once swore that the rare animals found in his house during the hand arrest operation (OTT) were not his. He said the animal was a deposit from someone else.

"For God's sake, it's a deposit," Terbit told reporters, Tuesday, May 17.

"I don't have a rare animal to keep it, because it was entrusted to me," he added.

Terbit admitted that he did not know if the animals he had entrusted were classified as rare and protected by law. "If I know for sure I will direct the person who entrusted it and I will question their permission," he said.

When asked to specify what animals were entrusted to him, Terbit admitted that he had forgotten. He only mentioned, one of them is an orangutan.

Meanwhile, regarding the party who entrusted it, Terbit refused to disclose it to the public. He only said that he had conveyed who the party was to investigators from the KLHK.

"I have already explained to the examiner that the person who entrusted it is in accordance with what I reported earlier," he said.