TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Deputy Chairman Bambang Widjojanto ensured that his commission has confiscated all of Muhammad Nazaruddin's money laundering assets. So far, the KPK has only charged the former member of the House of Representatives (DPR) with money laundering associated with the purchase of Garuda Indonesia airline stocks.
Nazar is currently being detained at the Sukamiskin Penitentiary in Bandung after being found guilty of corruption for the Palembang athlete's complex graft case.
Previously, KPK spokesman Johan Budi said that KPK had seized at least Rp 400 billion (around US$40,468,000) worth of Nazar's assets such as his Garuda shares worth of Rp 300 billion (around US$ 30,351,000) and an oil palm plantation in Riau worth Rp 90 billion (around US$9,106,900).
Tempo's source revealed that aside from Nazar's Garuda shares and oil palm plantation, the KPK has also seized and froze some of his land, homes, companies, vehicles, and funds in a number of local banks.
"All of it is worth over half a trillion [rupiahs]," said the source. The source also said the KPK did not inform this issue to the public because they were afraid Nazar may divert his assets before KPK had a chance to take over. Nazar's attorney, Elza Syarief, claimed that she never heard about her client's assets being seized.
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