Minister Edhy Prabowo Spends Luxury Bribes, Buying Hermes Bags And Rolex Watches

Press conference on the determination of the suspect, Minister of KKP Edhi Prabowo as a suspect (PR KPK)

JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has named Minister of Marine Affairs and Fisheries Edhy Prabowo as a suspect. This Gerinda Party politician was named a suspect for allegedly accepting billions of rupiah in bribes related to pond licensing.

After getting this bribe, Minister Edhy Prabowo along with his wife Iis Rosita Dewi and a number of officials at the Ministry of Fisheries visited Hawaii, United States.

There, Edhy spent the bribe to buy luxury items at fantastic prices. Like Hermes bags and Rolex watches.

"From the arrest, BNI ATMs were found in the name of AF, LV bag, Hermes bag, Old Navy shirt, Rolex watch, Jacob n Co watch, Tumi luggage bag and LV luggage bag," said KPK deputy chairman Nawawi Pamolago at a press conference at KPK building, Jakarta, Wednesday, November 25.

According to Nawawi, only part of the money used to spend on luxury goods. Namely 750 million from the Rp3.4 billion in the BNI account.

Nawawi explained that the arrest operation against Minister Edhy began with information on the alleged receipt of money by State Administrators.

"On November 21, 2020 to November 23, 2020, the KPK again received information on a transaction in a bank account that was suspected of being a collector of funds from several parties that were being used for the benefit of State Administrators to purchase a number of luxury goods outside the territory of Indonesia," said Nawawi.

Then, on Tuesday, November 24, the KPK team moved and divided into several teams in the Soekarno Hatta Airport area, Jakarta, South Tangerang, Depok (West Java) and Bekasi (West Java) to follow up on the information referred to.

"Then at around 00.30 WIB, the team immediately took care of security," he said.

In this case, the KPK named 7 people as suspects. They are KKP Minister Edhy Prabowo and five recipients of bribes, namely SAS, APM, SW, AS and AN. Meanwhile, the gift giver is SYT.

The suspected recipients are suspected of Article 12 paragraph 1 letter a or b or article 11 of Law 31 1999 as amended by Law 20 of 2001 on corruption in conjunction with Article 55 paragraph 1 to 1 of the Criminal Code jo Article 64 paragraph 1.