New bribery case involving BI officials: KPK

The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) said Friday it had received a further report on the alleged bribes given to two Bank Indonesia senior officials from Reserve Bank of Australia firms to win a contract to print banknotes in 1999.

KPK deputy chairman M. Jasin told kompas.com that the antigraft body officially accepted the report on the case on May 25. Jasin refused to name the identity of the reporter.

The case surfaced following a report in the Australian daily newspaper The Age about allegedly illegal payments worth US$1.3 million to BI officials, identified by their initials as S and M, to help Reserve Bank of Australia firms secure the money printing contract worth more than $50 million.

Previously, a former BI governor, three former deputy governors and several other senior officials at the central bank were convicted of misusing Rp 100 billion in BI funds.