Family ties found in simulator graft case

JAKARTA. The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) summoned on Monday detained graft suspect Insp. Gen. Djoko Susilo for another round of questioning in its effort to intensify its investigation.

The KPK is now racing against time to bring Djoko’s case to the Jakarta Corruption Court.

A source familiar with the investigation said that of four suspects in the case, Djoko would be the first to be brought to trial.

“We [the KPK] are currently focusing our investigation on him [Djoko], and I think we will be submitting his case to the corruption court soon,” the source said on Monday.

The KPK questioned Djoko for the fourth time since being named a suspect in July.

Djoko arrived at the KPK at 10 a.m. on Monday and left after questioning at 5:49 p.m.

The two-star police general was tight-lipped when queried by reporters about his case as he entered KPK headquarters. “It is not over yet,” he said.

The KPK first questioned Djoko as a suspect on Oct. 5.

KPK investigators only detained him at a high security facility in Guntur, South Jakarta, after the second round of questioning on Dec. 3.

The KPK has named four suspects in the graft case that centers on the procurement of 700 two-wheel and 556 four-wheel driving simulators in 2011 at the National Police Traffic Corps (Korlantas), which was worth Rp 200 billion (US$21.2 million).

The case reportedly caused around US$19.81 million in state losses.

The four suspects are Djoko himself, former Korlantas chief; Brig. Gen. Didik Purnomo, the former deputy chief at the corps; Budi Su-santo, the director of the tender-winning company PT Citra Mandiri Metalindo Abadi (CMMA); and Sukotjo S. Bambang, director of PT Inovasi Teknologi Indonesia, a company that was subcontracted by
PT CMMA,

KPK spokesman Johan Budi said at a press conference later on Monday that the commission had summoned Djoko in order to complete the files on his case.

“DS [Djoko Susilo] is being questioned in his capacity as a suspect for the case, and we are trying to complete the documents from his investigation,” he said.

Johan added that investigators had also questioned a businesswoman, identified as Atiet Krisdina, who owns shares in PT Mitra Alumindo Selaras, a subsidiary of PT CMMA, as a witness for Djoko.

Atiet is Djoko’s daughter-in-law, and her father is Insp. Gen. Utjin Sudiana Djamhar, who also headed Korlantas in 2005, when the corps was still called the National Police traffic directorate.

It has been widely reported that Atiet’s company was involved in a separate graft case at the corps in connection with driver’s licenses and vehicle registration documents. (Rabby Pramudatama/ The Jakarta Post)