Dewas Express 90 Employees Guilty Of Extortion At The KPK Detention Center, Affected By Heavy Sanctions

Chairman of the KPK Supervisory Board Tumpak Hatorangan Panggabean. BETWEEN/Fianda Sjofjan Rassat

JAKARTA - The Supervisory Board of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) found 90 employees of the anti-corruption agency guilty in a case of illegal levies at the KPK Detention Center (Rutan). "So what is being tried today, there are six case files, a total of 90 people being investigated. Earlier, it was also followed that the sanctions imposed on the examinees were severe sanctions in the form of direct open apologies," said Chairman of the KPK Council Tumpak Hatorangan Panggabean at the KPK Anti-Corruption Education Center Building, South Jakarta, Antara, Thursday, February 15. Tumpak then added that 12 of them would be submitted to the Secretariat General of the KPK for further examination and settlement. "Why? Because they did what they did before the KPK Supervisory Board, so that the Council was not authorized to try this," he said. The former KPK leader said the employees were charged with Article 4 paragraph 2 letter b of the KPK Supervisory Board Regulation No.3/2021 concerning acts of abusing authority, position and/or authority including abusing the influence of KPK personnel in carrying out their duties for personal interests. "So in carrying out his duties as a prison officer he gets a personal profit in the form of money," said Tumpak. He also explained that since KPK employees changed to ASN on June 1, 2021, ethical sanctions for employees were only in the form of moral sanctions, in this case an apology, with the heaviest being an open and direct apology. The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Council also recommended that personnel development officials carry out an examination to impose disciplinary penalties in accordance with applicable laws and regulations. Tumpak said, based on the legal facts found at the trial, the examinees found out that the KPK detainees used cellphones in the KPK detention center but were left because the examinees had received currency covert money every month from KPK detainees.

The examinees even provide other facilities such as helping prisoners enter goods or food or charge using power banks that should not be carried out by the examinees.