Taufik Suspected of Accepting Bribes from Political Elites
The Corruption Eradication Commission has named House of Representatives Deputy Speaker Taufik Kurniawan of the National Mandate Party (PAN) a suspect in a graft case. This makes him the second House leader of the 2014 to 2019 period to be implicated in corruption.
Taufik Kurniawan
JAKARTA, KOMPAS — The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has named House of Representatives Deputy Speaker Taufik Kurniawan of the National Mandate Party (PAN) a suspect in a graft case. This makes him the second House leader of the 2014 to 2019 period to be implicated in corruption. Former House speaker and Golkar Party politician Setya Novanto was found guilty of taking bribes in an e-ID graft case.
On Tuesday, the deputy chairperson of the KPK, Basaria Pandjaitan, said Taufik was suspected of accepted at least Rp 3.65 billion as a part of a fee for the allocation of special allocation funds (DAK) in the revision of the 2016 state budget for the deliberation of the 2016 regional budget of Kebumen in Central Java.