TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Former Anti-graft Commission (KPK) deputy chief Mochamad Jasin said the KPK is now much more ‘polite’ compared to his era of leadership. Jasin pointed out that KPK had never returned empty handed from a confiscation process. “Confiscation is always forced,” said Jasin, met at the Religious Ministry Inspectorate General office on Monday, May 13.
Jasin made the remark in response to a seizure process conducted on a car belonging to the Prosperity and Justice Party (PKS) former president Luthfi Hasan Ishaaq at the party’s HQ. The cars to be confiscated were a black Nissan Frontier Navara license plate number B-9051-QI, a Mitsubishi Grandis license plate number B-7476-UE, a Mitsubishi Pajero Sport license plate number B-1074-RWD, a Mazda CX-9 license plate number B-2-MDF, a Toyota Fortuner license plate number B-544-RFS and a Volkswagen Caravelle license plate number B-948-RFS. During the process, KPK investigators were obstructed by the party HQ’s security officers who teamed up with some people without uniform.
Jasin added that the KPK could arrest people who obstructed such process. Jasin is concern that if the KPK did not file charges against those who obstructed justice, it will become a bad precedent. The commission will appear helpless in the face of corruption.
