Apart From Firli Bahuri, 5 Other KPK Leaders Were Entangled In Legal Cases

The KPK's Red and White Building in Kuningan Persada, South Jakarta. (doc VOI)

JAKARTA - Chairman of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Firli Bahuri was named a suspect in the alleged extortion case against former Minister of Agriculture (Mentan) Syahrul Yasin Limpo (SYL) on Wednesday, November 22 evening.

Firli is not the first KPK leader to face the law. Previously, there were 5 KPK frontmen suspected of being involved in murder cases, document falsification, and false statements at trial. Some of them were thrown in prison.

The following are the names of the KPK leaders:

Antasari Azhar

Antasari Azhar, as Chairman of the KPK for the period 2007-2009, was involved in the murder case of the Director of PT Putra Rajawali Banjaran Nasrudin Zulkarnain.

Antasari was arrested and designated as the mastermind behind the murder of Nasrudin while exposing a large corruption case involving a number of high-ranking officials.

As a result of his actions, Antasari was sentenced to 18 years in prison in 2009. On November 10, 2016, Antasari underwent a conditional free program.

Seeds Of Samad Rianto And Chandra Hamzah

Bibit Samad Rianto is the Deputy Chairperson of the KPK for the 2007-2011 term of service. Meanwhile, Chandra Hamzah is also the Deputy Chair of the KPK for Enforcement and the Field of Information and Data for the 2007-2011 period.

Bibit and Chandra were involved in legal problems because they were accused of committing a criminal act of extortion and abuse of authority as KPK leaders in 2009.

Both of them were then detained at the Bareskrim Polri detention center on October 29, 2009. However, the 6th President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) responded to this case by giving directions so that the Police, the Attorney General's Office and the KPK both take corrective action.

On the one hand, the course of the case of Bibit and Chandra is said to be the result of the heated relationship between the two cores of KPK-Polri law enforcers following the KPK's wiretapping of Komjen Susno Duadji, who at that time served as Head of Criminal Investigation at the National Police Headquarters.

Susno's name was then dragged away by the disbursement of funds from a Century Bank customer named Boedi Sampoerna.

Susno then gave up the term 'Cicak vs Buaya' at that time. Cicak is likened to the KPK, while Crocodile is the Police.

Abraham Samad

While serving as Chairman of the KPK for the 2011-2015 period, Abraham Samad had to face the law. Samad is suspected of falsifying population administration documents in the form of a passport, family card, and the ID card of a woman named Feriyani Lim on February 17, 2015.

The crime of falsifying the occupation documents was allegedly carried out by Samad in order to facilitate the processing of Feriyani's passport.

In the case, Samad, who was named a suspect, was temporarily dismissed from the position of Chairman of the KPK by President Joko Widodo (Jokowi).

However, this case ended with a deponir after many criticisms from the public because of the emergence of this case allegedly due to the reheating of the relationship between the two cores of KPK-Polri law enforcers after Komjen Budi Gunawan (BG) was named a corruption suspect by the anti-corruption agency. At that time, BG's name was a strong candidate for the National Police Chief.

Bambang Widjojanto

Before serving as Deputy Chairperson of the KPK for the 2011-2015 period, Bambang Widjojanto was a lawyer who used to handle cases at the Constitutional Court (MK). However, Bambang actually had problems with the law in mid 2015.

Bambang was accused of giving false information in the trial at the Constitutional Court based on public reports that were not identified by the Police.

Based on the report, Bambang was accused of ordering witnesses to provide false information in the election dispute trial in West Kotawaringin in 2010.

Bambang was later named a suspect and arrested by the National Police in Depok, West Java on January 23, 2015.

Just like Abraham Samad, the journey of this case was later deponed.