Regarding Rp. 349 trillion scandal, Susno Duadji: Mahfud MD was accurate: not an arbitrary minister
- The mystery of the Rp 349 trillion odd transaction that was uncovered by the Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Mahfud MD is currently a public concern.
Former Police Head of Criminal Investigation, Susno Duadji for example. He also commented on the strange transaction that was exposed by Mahfud MD.
Quoted from Metro Tv's YouTube channel on Monday, March 27 2023, Susno Duadji in fact appreciated Mahfud MD for daring to expose these irregularities to the media.
According to him, Mahfud MD is not an arbitrary Minister considering that the Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs is a senior and has experience in being the head of the Constitutional Court.
Thus, disclosing odd transactions to the public is a style of inducement from the Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs.
"Mr. Mahfud is not just an arbitrary Minister, he is the senior Coordinating Minister and has been the Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court. His style is fishing," said Susno.
The former Police Criminal Investigation Head revealed that what was conveyed by the Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs with PPATK was accurate.
"I also thank PPATK because the figure PPATK is accurate, what was conveyed by Mr. Mahfud was accurate." he said.
Susno Duadji also believes that big companies are involved in this strange transaction.
Meanwhile, previously in the DPR Commission III meeting with PPATK, Arteria Dahlan revealed that a public official is prohibited from disclosing secrets.
This relates to Article 11 which he also read out the contents of at the meeting.
It was explained that public officials were prohibited from disclosing confidential data to the public, if this was violated, there would be criminal sanctions with the threat of four years in prison.
"I read out Article 11 sir, officials or employees of PPATK, investigators or public prosecutors, judges and everyone, every person including the Minister including the Menko sir, who obtain documents or information in the context of carrying out their duties according to this law, must keep confidentialdocument or statement," Arteria explained, quoted from Kompastv's YouTube channel.
"The sanction, sir, is that each person is punished with a maximum imprisonment of four years," he added. ***