KPK Detention Guards Disrespectfully Discharged For Receiving Rp. 300,000 From Imam Nahrawi

KPK (Wardhany Tsa Tsia / VOI)

JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) dismissed an employee with the initials TK. This prison guard was fired after receiving Rp. 300 thousand from former Youth and Sports Minister (Menpora) Imam Nahrawi.

"The KPK Supervisory Board has issued a verdict on TK with severe sanctions in the form of Disrespectfully Dismissed as an employee of the Corruption Eradication Commission," said Acting KPK spokesperson for prosecution Ali Fikri to reporters in a written statement, Monday, December 21.

TK, he continued, was proven to have violated the code of ethics stipulated in Article 4 paragraph (1) letters g and h and Article 4 paragraph (2) letter a of Supervisory Board Regulation Number 02 of 2020 concerning Enforcement of the Code of Ethics and Code of Conduct of the Corruption Eradication Commission.

This decision was taken based on an ethical trial chaired by KPK Supervisory Board member Hardjono.

The violations committed were ignoring the obligation to refuse and report any gratification deemed bribery and to establish direct contact with parties whose cases the KPK is known to be handling.

Not only that, TK also took other actions in the form of giving a telephone contact number to one of the detainees, receiving a food parcel in the form of three boxes of pempek, borrowing Rp. 800 thousand, and receiving an amount of money from one of the KPK detainees amounting to Rp. 300 thousand.