8 Suspects In The Ministry Of Manpower's TKA Permit Extortion Case Will Soon Be Tried

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The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) said that eight suspects in the extortion case for the management of the Foreign Workers Use Plan (RPTKA) of the Ministry of Manpower (Kemnaker) would soon be tried. Investigators have submitted the case files to the public prosecutor (JPU).

"Investigators carried out stage 2, namely the submission of suspects and evidence to the prosecutor regarding the alleged corruption case in the management of RPTKA at the Ministry of Manpower," said KPK spokesman Budi Prasetyo in a written statement, Wednesday, November 19.

Budi said the submission of this case file was divided into two. Belonging to the suspect Gatot Widiartono as Coordinator for Analysis and Control of Foreign Workers, Directorate of Control of the Use of Foreign Workers of the Ministry of Manpower; and Putri Citra Wahyoe, Jamal Shodiqin, and Alfa Eshad who are staff at the Directorate General of Binapenta and PPK were handed over on Wednesday, November 19.

Meanwhile, files belonging to Suhartono and Haryanto who had served as Director General of Manpower Placement and Expansion of Job Opportunities (Binapenta and PKK) of the Ministry of Manpower; Wisnu Pramono as Director of PPTKA of the Ministry of Manpower; and Devi Anggraeni as Coordinator of the PPTKA Feasibility Test for the period 2020-July 2024 later became Director of PPTKA for the period 2024-2025 had been submitted to the prosecutor on Wednesday, November 12.

The prosecutor will then make an indictment within 14 days. This file will then be transferred to the trial after that.

Previously reported, the KPK announced eight suspects in the extortion case for the processing of foreign workers' permits (TKA) at the Ministry of Manpower (Kemnaker) for the 2019-2024 period.

Two of them were Suhartono and Haryanto who had served as Director General of Manpower Placement and Expansion of Job Opportunities (Binapenta and PKK) of the Ministry of Manpower. They are suspected of having participated in the flow of extortion money from foreign workers whose value reached Rp53.7 billion.

Meanwhile, the other suspect is Wisnu Pramono as Director of PPTKA of the Ministry of Manpower; Devi Anggraeni as Coordinator of the PPTKA Feasibility Test for the period 2020-July 2024 then became Director of PPTKA for the period 2024-2025; Gatot Widiartono as Coordinator of Analysis and Control of Foreign Workers The Directorate of Control of the Use of Foreign Workers of the Ministry of Manpower; and Putri Citra Wahyoe, Jamal Shodiqin, and Alfa Eshad who are staff at the Directorate General of Binapenta and PPK.

From this case, the KPK has confiscated Harley Davidson from the former special staff of Ida Fauziyah while serving as Minister of Manpower, Risharyudi Triwibowo. The big motorbike was already at the KPK Confiscated Property Storage House (Rupbasan), Jalan Dewi Sartika, Cawang, East Jakarta after being brought by investigators on July 21.

In addition, investigators also confiscated several other assets, including Haryanto's house and rented house in the Cimanggis area, Depok, West Java and in the Sentul area, Bogor Regency, West Java.