JAKARTA (Yosefardi) – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) mulls to take a legal action against those who leaked and distributed a fake transcript claimed based on KPK’s wiretap on a conversation between PDI-P chairwoman Megawati Soekarnoputri and Attorney General Basrief Arief concerning a graft case related to the procurement of Transjakarta buses.
The fake wiretap transcript has cornered Megawati, Basrief Arief, KPK, and presidential candidate Joko “Jokowi” Widodo.
KPK’s spokesperson Johan Budi Sapto Prabowo said KPK leaders will soon decide on whether or not to take a legal action against those who slandered KPK through fake wiretap transcript.
Johan also said KPK has made sure that the leaked wiretap transcript is fake.
The Attorney General and PDI-P, meanwhile, have also denied to have ever been involved in a conversation as written in the leaked fake wiretap transcript.
Alexander Lay from Jokowi-Jusuf Kalla advocacy team said the leaked fake wiretap transcript is a form of a black campaign against Jokowi-Kalla pair and a defamation over Megawati and Basrief Arief.
As reported earlier, the leaked fake KPK’s wiretap transcript was circulated by Faizal Assegaf, Chairman of a group of activists called themselves as Progress 98.
According to Faizal, he listened the wiretapped conversation from someone recognized himself as an envoy of KPK’s Deputy Chief Bambang Widjojanto. Faizal said that later that envoy gave him the wiretap transcript.
The transcript of the wiretapped conversation distributed by Faizal itself is contained the request from Megawati to Basrief Arief to not bring in Jokowi into the investigation conducted by the Attorney General Office (AGO) on Transjakarta buses graft case.
Faizal Assegaf said he didn’t slander KPK, AGO, and PDI-P through the transcript of the wiretapped conversation.
Faizal, who is also known as a Jakarta-based activist from the Maluku Islam Front (FIM), previously ever also reported Jokowi to KPK related to the donations collected by his campaign team.
Faizal, at that time, argued that the donations to the campaign of Jokowi, who at that time still the Governor of Jakarta, could be considered gratuities. (haryantos@yosefardi.biz)