KPK: Meranti Regent Allegedly Bribery BPK Auditor For WTP Predicate

The Regent of Meranti Islands Muhammad Adil (center) is preparing to undergo an examination after being caught by the KPK (Photo: Antara)

JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission suspects that the Regent of Meranti Islands Muhammad Adil bribed the auditor of the Supreme Audit Agency so that the financial statements of the Meranti Islands Regency Government, Riau, obtained an Unqualified Predicate (WTP).

"The alleged bribery is related to the examination by the BPK auditor so that the Meranti Islands Regency Government gets the WTP title," said Head of the KPK News Section Ali Fikri in Jakarta, Friday, quoted by Antara.

Ali also said that Muhammad Adil allegedly cut the budget for regional apparatus organizations and received fees from Umrah travel.

"The alleged corruption is related to cutting the OPD budget within the Meranti Islands Regency Government and receiving Umrah travel services fees," he said.

In the arrest operation (OTT) which took place on Thursday (6/4) night, KPK investigators arrested 25 people consisting of the Regent of the Meranti Islands Muhammad Adil, the head of the Riau Province Representative Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) Team, as well as a number of officials and private parties.

"So far, the KPK team has secured 25 people consisting of regents, regional secretary, heads of agencies and agencies, heads of fields and other officials within the Meranti Islands Regency Government as well as aides to regents and private parties," said Ali.

The anti-corruption agency also confiscated billions of rupiah in the OTT against Muhammad Adil.

"That's right, so far the alleged money as evidence in this arrest is billions of rupiah," said Ali.

Ali added that the KPK does not consider the large or small transactional value in a criminal act of corruption.

"As a common understanding, the amount of large or small money is not the main thing in proving the element of corruption," he said.

The KPK ensures that it will take action against all forms of corruption as long as it happens within its authority.

"A little or a lot of things are the same as acts of corruption, even accepting promises if there is a transaction related to the abuse of office as the organizer has been categorized as a criminal act of corruption," he said.