The Corruption Elimination Commission (KPK) has actually apprehended East Kutai Regent Ismunandar and his better half, East Kutai Legislative Council (DPRD) speaker Encek UR Firgasih, together with 13 others on Thursday night for supposed corruption in goods and services procurement in the regency.
The arrests were carried out in separate operations in Jakarta and East Kutai and Samarinda in East Kalimantan between Thursday and Friday, KPK representative for police Ali Fikri stated.
” We collared a number of parties in Jakarta and there are currently 7 people in the KPK headquarters still being questioned by our team,” Ali stated in a written declaration released Friday.
“8 more were apprehended in East Kutai and Samarinda. After the Samarinda Authorities examine them, they would be required to Jakarta in the afternoon,” he stated.
KPK commissioner Nawawi Pomolango stated the antigraft firm arrested Ismunandar, Encek and a local advancement preparation firm head at a hotel in Jakarta.
Ismunandar won the local election in 2015 to lead East Kutai regency from 2016 to2021 He previously functioned as the secretary for the East Kutai administration in between 2010 and 2015.
The arrest operation was the third one carried out under the KPK ' s brand-new leader, Comr. Gen. Firli Bahuri, following two separate operations in January that netted Saiful Ilah, the regent of Sidoarjo in East Java, and General Elections Commission (KPU) commissioner Wahyu Setiawan.
