Anti-Graft Agency Takes Huge Cash, Luxury Bags from Ex-Tax Official’s Home
Jakarta. Investigators of the Corruption Eradication Commission, or KPK, on Friday seized safe deposit boxes containing cash and tens of top designer bags from the home of former tax official Rafael Alun Trisambodo at upscale housing complex Simprug Golf in South Jakarta.
The move came after the commission named Rafael a graft suspect, following an inquiry into his assets and public outrage over a video showing his son, Mario Dandy, assaulting a teenager that caused the victim to be in a coma for weeks now.
The KPK alleged that Rafael has accepted bribes for at least 12 years while in office.
"Investigators found cash and tens of luxury bags of foreign brands," KPK spokesman Ali Fikri said when asked about the search.
The cash was being counted but the amount is expected to reach tens of billions of rupiah, another KPK official has confirmed.
In an exclusive interview with news broadcaster BTV aired on Friday evening, Rafael said his naming of the suspect came on Tuesday when he received a letter from the KPK announcing a formal graft investigation against him.
“I have received a summons for an investigation as a suspect,” Rafael told BTV’s Fristian Griec.
“I leave it to the KPK to explain my case because I don’t understand their considerations. I didn’t do what they accused me of doing,” he said.
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