KPK Confiscates US$1.6 Million To 5 Property Assets Related To The Corruption Case Of Hajj Quota

KPK spokesman Budi Prasetyo (Wardhany Tsa Tsia/VOI)

JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) confiscated money in foreign denominations, cars to property assets suspected of being related to corruption in quotas and the implementation of Hajj in 2023-2024 at the Ministry of Religion (Kemenag). This forced effort was made from a number of related parties in the case.

"Until now, the investigative team has confiscated several related parties, a total of 1.6 million US dollars, four four four-wheeled vehicles, and five plots of land and buildings," said KPK spokesman Budi Prasetyo to reporters in a written statement, Tuesday, September 2.

Budi said the confiscation was to strengthen evidence of alleged corruption. "At the same time, the KPK's first steps in optimizing asset recovery or state financial recovery due to alleged state financial losses caused by criminal acts of corruption have reached a fairly large value," he said.

Furthermore, investigators called Budi will continue to explore where the money for corruption in the hajj quota flows. Thus, the alleged riot handled can be clearer.

"Investigators will continue to explore the flow of money related to the practice of buying and selling the additional quota for the 2023 2024 hajj," he said.

Previously reported, the KPK has issued a general investigation warrant (sprindik) for alleged corruption in the addition of quotas and the implementation of Hajj. This institution reasoned that the issuance was carried out so that they could make forced efforts in the form of examining witnesses and searches.

The general Sprindik uses Article 2 Paragraph 1 and/or Article 3 of Law Number 31 of 1999 concerning the Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption as amended by Law Number 20 of 2021 in conjunction with Article 55 paragraph 1 of the Criminal Code. This means that there are state losses that occur due to this corrupt practice.

State losses in the corruption case of quota and Hajj for the period 2023-2024 are said to have reached more than IDR 1 trillion. This amount is still increasing because it is only the initial calculation of the KPK which continues to coordinate with the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK).

This case began with the provision of 20,000 additional Hajj quotas from the Saudi Arabian government for Indonesia to reduce queues for pilgrims.

However, recently the distribution turned out to be problematic because it was divided equally, namely 50 percent for regular Hajj and 50 percent for special Hajj.

In fact, based on the law, the distribution should be 92 percent for regular Hajj and 8 percent for special Hajj.