Johanis Tanak Wants To Hold A Case Of Scandal Kardus Durian Cak Imin For Legal Certainty

Deputy Chairperson of the KPK Johanis Tanak. (Tsa Tsia-VOI)

JAKARTA - Deputy Chairman of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Johanis Tanak wants to conduct a case title or exposure to the durian cardboard scandal involving the General Chairperson of the National Awakening Party (PKB) Muhaimin Iskandar. He considered that this step needed to be taken to create legal certainty.

"I hope there will be exposure first, let's see if there is enough evidence to be increased or not. This needs legal certainty as well," Johanis told reporters at the KPK's Red and White Building, Kuningan Persada, South Jakarta, Monday, November 21.

Johanis has not checked the follow-up to the scandal. However, he wants the corruption cases reported to the KPK to be clear and not to harm others.

"Do not let the reported person not commit an act and it is not clear. So there is no legal certainty," he said.

Johanis said, the exposure or title of this case will determine the follow-up to this durian scandal. If it is proven that other parties are involved, the investigation will continue.

"I hope that in the future this will be tried again, or in the police terms it will be held or at the prosecutor's office it will be exposed again," he said.

"We'll see if his actions are indicated by corruption or not? If not, yes, we will say no. If so, we will improve it, so that there is legal certainty and there is justice, as the legal goal," continued Johanis.

For information, the durian cardboard scandal was revealed in the trial of the bribery case at the Ministry of Manpower and Transmigration (Kemenakertrans) which has now changed its name. At that time, Cak Imin became the Minister of Manpower and Transmigration.

At the trial, Director General of the Directorate General of Transmigration Area Development (P2Ktrans) Jamaluddien Malik said Muhaimin received Rp400 million. The money from the budget cuts at the directorate in 2013 was stored in a durian cardboard box.

Not only that, the name Cak Imin has also been mentioned in the bribery case for the infrastructure project of the Ministry of PUPR in Maluku and North Maluku for the 2016 fiscal year.

In this case, Musa Zainudin, who had sat in the chair of the prisoner, said that he had given Rp6 billion of the Rp7 billion he received as project fee to Cak Imin. However, the money was given not directly but through Jazilul Fawaid, who at that time was Secretary of the PKB Faction.