KPK Will Investigate Alleged Money Flow To Cak Imin PKB Head

Chairman of the National Awakening Party (PKB) Muhaimin Iskandar (Photo: Instagram @cakiminow)

JAKARTA - Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) investigators did not remain silent regarding the information on the alleged flow of corruption funds to the Chairman of the National Awakening Party (PKB) Muhaimin Iskandar alais Cak Imin in a project bribery case at the Ministry of Public Works and Public Housing (Kemen PUPR).

The KPK will investigate the alleged flow of these funds. The alleged flow of funds was revealed in the Justice Collaborator (JC) petition submitted by former PKB politician Musa Zainuddin. Musa himself was already a convict in this case.

KPK Deputy for Enforcement, Karyoto said, the alleged flow of funds to Cak Imin and other PKB officials was still informational. To that end, the KPK will explore this information by examining other witnesses.

"Indeed, it is only a kind of information. Of course we have to investigate this information. We must look for witnesses, giving someone to another person without witnesses cannot be categorized as being proven, there must be at least two witnesses," said Karyoto to reporters, Jakarta quoted on Tuesday. , July 28th.

Musa is known to have been sentenced to 9 years in prison by the panel of judges. He was found guilty of accepting a Rp. 7 billion bribe to pass the Kempupera project in Maluku and North Maluku for the 2016. The money came from the President Director of PT Windhu Tunggal Utama, Abdul Khoir.

The former member of Commission V of the DPR sent a letter of request as Justice Collaborator from prison to the KPK at the end of July 2019. The letter stated that he did not enjoy the money he received from Abdul Khoir alone.

A total of Rp. 6 billion was handed over to the PKB faction secretary at that time, Jazilul Fawaid at the official residence complex of DPR members. After handing over the money to Jazilul, Musa admitted that he immediately called the PKB faction chairman Helmy Faishal Zaini to convey a message to Cak Imin that Rp6 billion had been handed over through Jazilul.

However, this information was never revealed before the court. Musa admitted that he had indeed covered up the role of his colleagues because he received instructions from two high-ranking party officials. Two high-ranking party officials, said Musa, said Cak Imin ordered that the case stop with Musa.

Karyoto said the KPK was not only investigating the alleged flow of funds. More than that, KPK law enforcement officials also explored the purpose of giving the money.

"Later, of course, this is still in the deepening stages of what the witnesses provide for this connection. This is what we are still looking for, even though we do not yet know whether there is a Justice collaborator or what. We have not explored this in that direction. so the final, "he said.

In investigating the flow of funds to PKB elites, the KPK investigating team has examined a number of PKB politicians. Some of them, Deputy Governor of Lampung Chusnunia Chalim alias Nunik, three DPR members from PKB, namely Fathan, Jazilul Fawaid, and Helmi Faisal Zaini.

In fact, the KPK has also summoned and examined Cak Imin as a witness in this case on Wednesday, January 29, 2020.