Langkat District Head Terbit Rencana Perangin Angin, center, reaches the KPK structure on January 19,2022 (Beritasatu Photo)
BY: THE JAKARTA WORLD
JANUARY 20, 2022
Jakarta. A district head in North Sumatra was apprehended by the Corruption Elimination Commission or KPK late Wednesday for apparently taking allurements in yet another major graft bust targeting misaligned regional leaders.
Terbit Rencana Perangin Angin, the head of Langkat District, arrived at the KPK structure in South Jakarta accompanied by investigators and security personnel right before midnight.
KPK Deputy Chairman Nurul Ghufron stated the district head has actually supposedly meant to take Rp 786 million in kickback money from an entrepreneur who won jobs from the city government.
Nurul stated a KPK team performed an operation in Langkat on Tuesday to follow a tipoff on thought bribery and arrested 4 entrepreneurs collecting at a café.
One of them is recognized as Muara Perangin Angin who withdrew the cash from several banks prior to the event. Muara, who has no household ties with Terbit, has actually won numerous facilities jobs worth Rp 4.3 billion from the district government, Nurul said.
Muara apparently attempted to carry the banknotes to the district head via his 3 colleagues recognized as Marcos Surya Abdi, Shuhanda Citra, and Isfi Syahfitra who acted as intermediaries.
The KPK team then relocated to the district head’s home but he could not be found.
” When the team came to the scene, they received information that TRP and his sibling had run away in an obvious effort to evade the arrest,” Nurul said in a press conference early on Thursday, describing Terbit by initials.
Terbit and his older sibling, Iskandar took refuge in the authorities workplace in surrounding Binjai, Nurul said. The bro allegedly is the district head’s most trusted aide in handling the regional company neighborhood.
KPK private investigators pertained to the cops workplace to interrogate and arrest Terbit on Wednesday afternoon prior to he was flown to Jakarta.
The district head, his brother, and the 4 business owners were called corruption suspects after preliminary investigation, he added.
Terbit is one of the richest regional leaders in the nation with a personal wealth of Rp 85 billion according to his public disclosure.
He is the 3rd regional leader to be jailed by the effective commission in simply two weeks, following the arrest of Bekasi Mayor Rahmat Effendi and North Penajam Paser District Head Abdul Gafur Mas’ ud.
They are charged with accepting allurements from business people who won jobs from the city government.
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