KPK Duga SYL Pays Law Firm Visi Law Using Corruption Proceeds Money

KPK Investigation Director Asep Guntur Rahayu/PHOTO: Wardhany Tsa Tsia-VOI

JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) suspects that former Agriculture Minister Syahrul Yasin Limpo (SYL) used the extorted money and gratuities he received to pay for the Visi Law Office services.

This is the basis for investigators to search the law firm's office in Pondok Indah, South Jakarta on Wednesday, March 19 yesterday.

"We are currently handling SYL's money laundering case. In the money laundering case, of course, we will track where the money suspected of being the proceeds of corruption flows," said KPK Investigation Director Asep Guntur Rahayu at the KPK's Merah Putih building, Kuningan Persada, Jakarta, Thursday, March 20.

The Vision Law Office was founded by former KPK spokesman Febri Diansyah and former Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) researcher Donal Fariz in 2022. After running, Rasamala Aritonang, who is the former Head of the Drafting of KPK Regulations and Legal Products, joined.

Febri and Rasamala later became the politicians' attorneys in cases of extortion and gratification.

"Well, we suspect that the money from SYL's corruption was used to pay. So we checked there," explained Asep.

From the results of the search, the KPK said that a number of documents and electronic evidence (BBE) were found. Meanwhile, from the information collected, investigators confiscated legal opinion files (LO) when Febri and Rasamala became SYL's attorneys in the case of extortion and receipt of gratuities and company financial records.

As previously reported, former Minister of Agriculture (Mentan) Syahrul Yasin Limpo is still a suspect in alleged money laundering. This step was taken after the KPK developed cases of extortion and acceptance of gratuities that ensnared him.

In this case, the KPK has confiscated a number of assets that Syahrul allegedly bought with money from corruption. Among them is a white Mitsubishi Sport Dakar hidden in an empty land in the Makassar area, South Sulawesi.