Chronology Of Nurhadi's Arrest, The Corruption Eradication Commission Had Breaks The Door Of The House

Press conference for the arrest of DPO Nurhadi and his son-in-law. (Documentation: Public Relations of KPK)

JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has disclosed the chronology of the arrests of two fugitives in cases of alleged bribery and gratification, namely former Supreme Court Secretary Nurhadi and his son-in-law, Riezky Herbiyono.

Deputy Chairman of the Corruption Eradication Commission, Nurul Ghufron, said that during the arrest, the team of investigators broke the lock of the gate and the house where Nurhadi was hiding.

The arrests, continued Ghufron, were carried out at 18.00 WIB when investigators received information from the public regarding the whereabouts of two people who were on the wanted list (DPO).

Next, the team then moved to the house which is located at Jalan Simprug Golf No.1, Grogol Selatan, Kebayoran Lama, South Jakarta with a warrant for arrest and search. According to him, the KPK team arrived at the former MA Secretary's safe house around 21.30 WIB.

"Initially the KPK investigating team was persuasive by knocking on the fence of the house but was ignored. Then the KPK investigators, accompanied by the head of the local RW and local RT administrators, made forced efforts to break the locks of the gates and doors of the house," Ghufron said in a press conference broadcast on the account. YouTube KPK, Tuesday, June 2.

After successfully entering the house which was a hiding place, the KPK then arrested Nurhadi and Riezky in two different rooms in the house.

"(Investigators, red) immediately made arrests of both of them," he said.

Then, the investigating team immediately took the two people to the KPK Red and White House to carry out further investigations related to the case. After completing their investigations, the two of them will be detained for the next 20 days at the Rutan KPK Kavling C1.

"Detention at the detention center was carried out on the two suspects for the first twenty days from June 2 to June 21," said Ghufron.

A snare case

In this case, the KPK suspected Nurhadi and his son-in-law, Riezky Herbiyono, of receiving bribes and gratuities worth Rp46 billion. The bribe was allegedly given by the Director of PT Multicon Indrajaya Terminal (MIT) Hiendra Soenjoto. The KPK suspects Hiendra of giving the money for a number of civil cases involving his company.

There were three cases of Nurhadi's bribery and gratification, the first was the PT MIT vs PT Kawasan Berikat Nusantara civil case, the second was a share dispute at PT MIT, and the third was gratification related to a number of cases in court.

Riezky as Nurhadi's son-in-law allegedly received nine checks on behalf of PT MIT from PT MIT Director Hiendra Soenjoto to take care of the case. The check was received when handling the PT MIT vs PT KBN case.

The KPK made Nurhadi a fugitive after not being cooperative in fulfilling the summons of KPK investigators. Investigations in this case have been carried out since December 6, 2019, and for the purpose of investigating the suspects, they have been prevented from leaving the country since December 12, 2019.

Nurhadi has even submitted a pretrial and was rejected by the South Jakarta District Court Judge on January 21, 2020.

For these actions, Nurhadi and Riezky were later suspected of violating Article 12 letter a or Article 12 letter b subsidiary to Article 5 paragraph (2) more than a subsidiary of Article 11 and / or Article 12B of Law Number 31 Year 1999 as amended by Law Number 20 of 2001 concerning the Eradication of Corruption in conjunction with Article 55 paragraph (1) 1 of the Criminal Code.