TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – The National Police’s detective department (Bareskrim) has again summoned former justice and human rights deputy minister Denny Indrayana. The questioning is the first since Denny was named a suspect in the alleged embezzlement surrounding a payment gateway system on Tuesday, March 24, 2015.
Denny’s lawyer Heru Widodo has assured that his client will meet the summons. “Yes, we are en route to Bareskrim,” he told Tempo via text message on Friday morning, March 27, 2015. The investigation was slated for 09:00 a.m.
The police named Denny a suspect in a graft case centering on the electronic payment system for passport processing in the immigration office. Denny was the one initiating the system when he was still deputy minister.
In the project’s implementation in July-October 2014, the police found that some Rp32 billion from passport processing was not sent to the state coffer, but instead wired to two vendors.
The results of an audit by the Supreme Audit Agency also revealed that the payment gateway was against the law on non-tax state income (PNPB) because each passport applicant was required to pay Rp5,000 for a banking charge—which was against the Finance Ministry’s regulations.
Denny dismissed the allegations, saying there was no state losses in the case, and that the Rp32 billion had been transferred to the state. He said the Rp5,000 charge was also optional.
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