Arrested By The KPK, Paulus Tannos Has Not Been Returned To Indonesia

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JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has not yet brought its fugitive, Paulus Tannos alias Tian Po Thjin, who is the President Director of PT Sandipala Artapura, to Indonesia after being arrested in Singapore. Various processes are still being carried out.

"(PT, ed) is still in Singapore," said Deputy Chairperson of the KPK Fitroh Rochcahyanto to reporters when confirmed in a written statement, Friday, January 24.

It is certain that the KPK will bring home the fugitive in the electronic identity card procurement project (e-KTP). However, Fitroh did not specify when because there was still a process going on.

"KPK is coordinating by completing the requirements to extradite the person concerned," said the former Director of Prosecution of the KPK.

As previously reported, the KPK revealed that Paulus Tannos no longer holds Indonesian passports. As a result, they could not arrest the suspect in the alleged corruption of the Electronic KTP (e-KTP) procurement project even though they had found it in neighboring countries.

The corruption case in the procurement of e-KTP has cost the state up to IDR 2.3 trillion if it refers to the report of the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK).

This case dragged the names of a number of high-ranking officials in the ministry, such as former Director General of Dukcapil Irman and former official at the Ministry of Home Affairs Sugiharto. In addition, there is also the name of former DPR Speaker Setya Novanto, former member of Commission III of the DPR Hanura Faction, Miryam S Haryani, a former member of Commission III of the DPR Markus Nari.

Then the KPK again named four new suspects in the e-KTP case in August 2020. They are former members of Commission II of the DPR from the Hanura Party faction Miryam S Haryani, President Director of the Indonesian State Printing Corporation (PNRI) as well as Chairman of the PNRI Consortium Isnu Edhi Wijaya, Head of the Information Technology Technical Team for the Application of ID cards Husni Fahmi, and President Director of PT Sandipala Arthaputra, Paulus Tanos.