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KPK Hints at New Suspects in High-Profile Graft Cases
Ronna Nirmala | January 17, 2012

House Member and husband of Nunun Nurbaeti, Adang Daradjatun, talks to journalists after he was questioned by the KPK in his wife’s bribery case on Tuesday. (JG Photo/Afriadi Hikmal) House Member and husband of Nunun Nurbaeti, Adang Daradjatun, talks to journalists after he was questioned by the KPK in his wife’s bribery case on Tuesday. (JG Photo/Afriadi Hikmal)
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Kesiangan
11:03pm Jan 17, 2012

I tremble with anticipation. Come on, Abraham, kick some ass!

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Two new suspects in a pair of high-profile corruption cases will be named soon, the antigraft czar revealed on Tuesday.

Abraham Samad, chairman of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), said the suspects had been identified in the bribery scandal centered on the appointment of a central bank official, and in the case of the rigged bid to build an athletes’ village for the Southeast Asian Games.

“We already have a prospective suspect for the athletes’ village case and one for the [Bank Indonesia] case,” he said.

“I’ve already notified Johan [Budi, the KPK spokesman], so just be patient, we’ll definitely announce it soon. If we name them now, there’s a possibility they could flee.”

Separately, when asked for confirmation, Johan also declined to name the two suspects, saying only that “the time hasn’t come yet.”

“The point is, the suspects’ respective roles in the cases have been revealed through the investigations to date,” he said.

In the central bank case, 28 sitting and former legislators have been convicted and jailed for taking a combined Rp 24 billion ($2.6 million) in bribes in exchange for voting for Miranda Goeltom as the BI senior deputy governor in 2004.

Nunun Nurbaetie, the wife of former National Police deputy chief Adang Daradjatun, is so far the only person named a suspect for handing out the bribes.

Adang was questioned by the KPK on Tuesday, specifically about his links to Miranda, who has not been named a suspect despite being the central figure in the scandal.

“They asked me if I was acquainted with her,” he told reporters after the questioning.

“I told them of course I was,” he said, stressing that he had nothing to do with the bribes.

He also said he only knew about the bribery in 2009, when his wife was first called in for questioning by the KPK.

Meanwhile, the second graft case that investigators are pursuing has already seen a Sports Ministry official, Wafid Muharam, jailed for taking a Rp 3.2 billion bribe last year. The money came from an executive of the company awarded the contract to build the athletes’ village.

The executive, Mohammad El Idris, and the woman who brokered the deal, Mindo Rosalina Manulang, have also been convicted in the case.

The KPK is currently prosecuting Muhammad Nazaruddin, the former Democratic Party treasurer and Rosalina’s boss at the time, for his role in the case.

Nazaruddin has long insisted that other senior Democrats were involved, as well as in similar cases of bid-rigging, including party chairman Anas Urbaningrum and legislator Angelina Sondakh.

Abraham said all those implicated would be duly questioned without exception, including Anas, who was also implicated by Rosalina following her own questioning by the KPK on Tuesday. Rosalina has also previously named Angelina as demanding a cut from the athletes’ village project.

“It’s the principle of equality before the law,” the KPK chairman said. “No one is immune to the law, be they a political party chairman or not.”

Additional reporting from Suara Pembaruan