ICW Reports Firli Bahuri To Bareskrim Regarding Alleged Helicopter Rental Gartification

Chairman of KPK Firli Bahuri (ANTARA)

JAKARTA - Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) reported the head of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Firli Bahuri to the Criminal Investigation Unit of the National Police. The report relates to the alleged receipt of helicopter rental gratuities.

"Today, ICW submitted information and reports related to the alleged case of receiving gratuities received by KPK chairman Firli Bahuri related to helicopter rentals," said ICW researcher Wana Alamsyah to reporters, Thursday, June 3.

The alleged gratification, said Wana, was due to information about the helicopter rental fee which was different from Firli's statement.

During the ethics hearing at the Supervisory Board (Dewas), Firli said the hourly helicopter rental price was around IDR 7 million. So for a 4-hour rental, the bill to be paid is around Rp. 30.8 million.

"But then we got other information from other service providers, that the hourly rental price is USD 2,750, or around IDR 39.1 million," said Wana.

"For us, there is a total of Rp. 172.3 million which Firli has to pay in relation to the helicopter rental," he continued.

Thus, according to ICW, there is a difference between Firli's confession and the information obtained.

ICW said that the helicopter rental was also suspected of having a conflict of interest. Where, one of the commissioners of PT Air Pacific Utama as the owner of the helicopter rental service was once called as a witness in the Meikarta permit case handled by the KPK.

On that basis, ICW reported Firli. ICW asked the Police to investigate whether there was a crime of gratification.

"We consider that and identify that what Firli Bahuri has done, related to the alleged acceptance of gratification, has been included in the elements of Article 12 B of Law Number 31 of 1999 in conjunction with Law Number 20 of 2001," he said.