The Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) says it is not obliged to persuade its member, Adang Daradjatun, to bring in his wife — fugitive corruption suspect Nunun Nurbaeti — to the anticorruption body.
The party also said that Adang was not obliged to help the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) investigate his wife.
“Well, since the KPK named her a suspect, it’s automatically the KPK’s responsibility to bring her to Indonesia,” PKS deputy secretary-general Mahfudz Siddiq told The Jakarta Post on Wednesday. “And it’s not Adang’s.”
However, Mahfudz said the PKS had supported the KPK in handling the case from the beginning, but he added that the PKS had no connection with the case despite that Adang was a member.
Nunun, who allegedly distributed travelers’ checks to dozens of lawmakers to persuade them to vote for a Bank Indonesia senior deputy governor candidate, is believed to have been in Singapore receiving medical treatment for “severe forgetfulness” since February of last year.
Nunun was not widely known until her name was dropped in March of last year in the indictment of
legislator Dudhie Makmun Murod from the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P). Nunun failed to respond to her first subpoena to testify against the convicted Dudhie.
She was later repeatedly mentioned in related trials as the middlewoman who distributed Rp 24 billion (US$2.81 million) in bribes in the form of traveler’s checks to legislators in exchange for their votes for Bank Indonesia senior deputy governor candidate Miranda Swaray Goeltom.
On Wednesday, Adang, who is also a former National Police deputy chief, said he would not hand over his wife to the KPK. “It’s my business whether or not to help the KPK bring Nunun back. I have my own rights protected by law to act as her husband and not as a witness,” he told reporters.
Adang said his family had sent Nunun to Singapore after her medical condition had deteriorated.
Adang slammed the KPK for naming Nunun a suspect without having adequate evidence.
“There is no single piece of hard evidence proving that [Nunun] distributed the bribes in the previous trials of the four convicts,” Adang told reporters on Wednesday.
KPK chief Busyro Muqoddas announced on Monday that Nunun was a suspect during a meeting with the House of Representatives’ Commission III. However, the KPK had already named her a suspect in
February.
“I want the case to be addressed according to the law and not to be based on hearsay,” Adang said. If [Nunun] is indeed guilty, prove it according to the law.”
KPK spokesman Johan Budi said Adang had the right not to bring Nunun to the KPK.
“It’s his right as a husband,” Johan said. “We cannot charge him with hiding a suspect since he is the husband of Nunun.”
He said KPK investigators would not summon Nunun by force.
“Let’s just wait; maybe Nunun’s family will change their stance. We all know that Adang was once a law enforcer.”
Johan said the KPK had not summoned Nunun again since naming her a suspect in February.
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