The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) building. (BeritaSatu Photo)
Jakarta. The Supreme Court has ordered the Corruption Eradication Commission, or KPK, to pay Rp 100 million ($84,600) to a former judge over the wrongful confiscation of his assets.
“The court granted the plaintiff’s appeal,” the presiding judge Valerie JL. Kriekhoof said as quoted by the court’s official website, www.mahkamahagung.go.id on Friday.
Previously the Central Jakarta district court said the KPK had abused its authority by confiscating some assets belong to Syarifuddin Umar, a former judge at the court, and said some of the assets seized were unrelated to the investigation and could not serve as evidence for Syarifuddin’s graft case.
Syarifuddin, who was found guilty in 2012 of receiving a Rp 250 million bribe from a curator of Skycamping Indonesia, a camping equipment company, filed a legal suit to the Supreme Court demanding the KPK pay Rp 5 billion in compensation for the wrongful asset seizure.
The Supreme Court stated that the KPK had committed an abuse of power and ordered the institution to pay Rp 100 million to Syarifuddin who has been sentenced to four years in prison.
KPK deputy chairman Bambang Widodjanto said the commission would respect and study the Supreme Court’s decision thoroughly before responding to the verdict.
“We will respect the verdict, we will study it and we will take a legal step on it,” he said on Saturday.
The court’s decision marks the first time KPK has lost an appeal in a corruption case — although Bambang denied this, claiming Syarifuddin’s appeal was not related to the act of corruption.
“This is just part of the challenges which we constantly need to overcome,” he said.
By Rizky Amelia & Erwin Cristianson on 01:41 pm Jun 14, 2014
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