JAKARTA (Yosefardi) – The leak of a so-called sprindik document belonging to the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) that outlined order to investigate Jero Wacik, Minister of Energy & Mineral Resources, in graft case related to PT Kernel Oil and other projects in energy sector, has widely been circulated in media. KPK, however, denied the issue.
A sprindik is a letter authorizing a full investigation into a case.
Two leaders of KPK, Bambang Widjojanto and Busyro Muqoddas, have clarified that KPK has never issued a letter ordering investigation over Jero Wacik. According to Bambang, KPK has yet named new suspect in Kernel Oil graft case, a case that brought Rudi Rubiandini, the dismissed Head of the powerful agency SKK Migas, as graft suspect.
The document in question was a draft letter ordering the investigation of Jero Wacik, as suspect in a graft case related to several projects, including project linked to PT Kernel Oil. The document has been signed by Bambang Widjojanto, Deputy Chief of KPK, by August 2013. The document also shown a handwritten memo waiting an approval from President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
Actually, it is not the first leak scandal. Early this year, the investigation order or sprindik issued for Anas Urbaningrum (former Chairman of SBY’s Democratic Party), who allegedly received a gratuity in the form of a luxury car from state-owned PT Adhi Karya in the Hambalang sports center graft case, was leaked to the media in February 2013. Later, the KPK Ethics Committee has concluded that one KPK commissioner was found guilty for letting his official leaking the document.
As reported earlier, KPK has continued to hunt more potential graft suspects in energy & mineral resources sector. The founding of US$200,000 cash inside a black bag at the office of Waryono Karno, Secretary General of
Ministry of Energy & Mineral Resources, has directed KPK’s investigation into the possibility involvement of Jero Wacik, who is also Secretary of Democratic Party’s High Assembly. (haryantos@yosefardi.biz)