REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) recorded 17 caught-red-handed corruption cases involving 56 suspects in 2016.  The number of cases was the highest in a year since the agency was established, KPK deputy chairwomen Basaria Panjaitan told reported here on Monday. 

The 56 suspects did not include those implicated after investigations of the cases by the agency, Basaria said.  The suspects included law enforcement officers, lawmakers, and heads of regional administrations, she said.  "More than Rp497.6 billion (confiscated from the suspects) have been transferred to the state treasury as non tax state revenues (BNPB)," she said. 

Altogether in 2016, KPK investigated 96 corruption cases including money laundering cases and executed 81 court decisions, she added.  She said 26 of the cases involved the private sector, 23 cases involving lawmakers and 10 cases involving official of echelon I, II and III and 8 cases involving regents/city mayors and deputies.

KPK had also coordinated with other law enforcement agencies in handling cases, she said, citing KPK arrested a suspects Suryo Handoko in Blitar, East Java, a law fugitive of the Central Kalimantan high prosecution office, and helped the Mentawai district prosecution office in nabbing a suspect Manatap Ambarita in Jakarta. 

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