KPK Asked To Make Novel Baswedan The Leader Of The Hunting Team For Harun Masiku

KPK investigator Novel Baswedan (Rizky Adytia Pramana / VOI)

JAKARTA - Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) appreciates the arrest of Minister of Marine Affairs and Fisheries Edhy Prabowo by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) investigative team.

ICW researcher Kurnia Ramadhana assessed that the success of the task force team, one of which was led by KPK investigator Novel Baswedan, should be used as evaluation material by the leadership, especially the Deputy for Enforcement, in order to arrest corruption criminals.

Moreover, the team has succeeded in arresting fugitive corruptors such as Nurhadi and his son-in-law, Riezky Herbiyono.

"Some of the cases that have succeeded in arresting fugitives or elites from the executive are investigators who succeeded in arresting Nurhadi and Riezky Herbiyono," said Kurnia to reporters, Thursday, November 26.

Seeing that good track record, he urged the team led by Novel to conduct a search for the former PDI-P candidate, Harun Masiku, who became a bribe suspect for the former Commissioner of the General Elections Commission (KPU) Wahyu Setiawan.

In addition, he again urged the KPK to disband Harun's search team, which was deemed not to have made significant progress in the past nine months.

"There must be an evaluation from the leadership of the Deputy for Enforcement and Deputy for Investigation to other investigators. For example in the Harun Masiku case, ICW has urged the team to be disbanded and replaced with a team that has a good track record throughout 2020," he said.

"So, the evaluation must be carried out. Either the evaluation of the leadership to the deputy or the deputy to the task forces that we have judged so far is not sufficient to detect the perpetrator of the crime in this case the task force for the Harun Masiku case," he added.

As previously reported, the KPK said that Novel Baswedan led a task force in the arrest of Minister of Fisheries and Marine Affairs Edhy Prabowo at Soekarno-Hatta Airport, Cengkareng, Tangerang on Wednesday, November 25 in the morning.

"One of the Kasatgas is really Novel Baswedan," said Acting KPK spokesman for prosecution Ali Fikri to reporters, Wednesday, November 25.

Apart from Novel, there are a number of other task force heads who took part because the KPK sent a number of teams. However, Ali did not explain that the other task force heads were working to carry out investigations or investigations.

"This activity is carried out by the KPK team on an official assignment by deploying more than three task forces, both investigations and investigations, including those from the prosecutors who participated in these activities," he said.

It is known that after being caught hand-in-hand operation (OTT), Edhy Prabowo was named an official suspect wearing an orange vest. He and five other Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (KKP) officials were named as suspects in the fry export permit case.

The five people are staff members of the Minister of KP Safri (SAF) and Andreau Pribadi Misanta (APM); management of PT Aero Citra Kargo (PT ACK) Siswadi (SWD); staff wife of the Minister of KP Ainul Faqih, and Amiril Mukminin (AM).

Meanwhile, the suspect who gave the bribe was the Director of PT Dua Putra Perkasa Pratama (PT DPPP) Suharjito (SJT).

In this case, Edhy allegedly received Rp3.4 billion, which was then used as much as Rp750 million to buy luxury goods in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States.

For his actions, Edhy and a number of officials in his ministry who were named as suspects who received bribes were then suspected of violating Article 12 paragraph (1) letters a or b or Article 11 of Law Number 31 of 1999 as amended by Law Number 20 of 2001 concerning Eradication of Corruption in conjunction with Article 55 paragraph (1) to 1 of the Criminal Code.

Meanwhile, the suspect who gave the bribe is suspected of violating Article 5 paragraph (1) letter a or b or Article 13 of Law Number 31 Year 1999 as amended by Law Number 20 Year 2001 concerning Eradication of Corruption Crime.

Next, after being named a suspect, Edhy and other parties will be detained at the KPK Detention Center, the Red and White Building, KPK for the next 20 days from November 25 to December 14.