KPK Not Only Relying On Public Reports Investigating Allegations Of Corruption

KPK (ANTARA) building

JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) does not only rely on evidence from the public who complain about alleged corruption. Moreover, the complainant often does not bring any evidence.

"But whether it was successful or not (the investigation into the alleged corruption, ed), there are also those who still succeeded or not," said KPK Director of Public Reporting and Complaints Service Tomi Murtopo to reporters quoted on Saturday, September 9.

Tomi revealed that the KPK has not relied on only one source of information. This is because there is a possibility that the evidence will be deleted after the reported party finds out what he did.

"There is no need to mutate the account, the minutes document says it has been deleted but sometimes, if for example it is still sustenance, we get a source of information that has access to the minutes. Some are still successful," he explained.

"So back again, the success of a complaint is a case or not, it depends on supporting data," continued Tomi.

Furthermore, Tomi revealed that 3,544 reports had been submitted to the KPK until August. Most of the complaints were submitted by letter.

Of that number, 2,944 reports have been completed. "Verified ones, examined 1,367 reports," he explained.

Meanwhile, the archived reached 1,620 reports. "Because maybe the document data doesn't exist. There's no phone number that we can ask to complete or archive because it's actually corruption, but there are no alleged corruption allegations," concluded Tomi.