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View all search resultsMandailing Natal regent gets five years for graft
The panel of judges at the MedanCorruption Court judges handed down suspended Mandailing Natal regent MuhammadHidayat Batubara a sentence of five- and-a -half years in prison and obliged himto pay Rp 300 million in fines as he was proven to have been involved in thePenyabungan Hospital construction graft case
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he panel of judges at the MedanCorruption Court judges handed down suspended Mandailing Natal regent MuhammadHidayat Batubara a sentence of five- and-a -half years in prison and obliged himto pay Rp 300 million in fines as he was proven to have been involved in thePenyabungan Hospital construction graft case.
'It has been proven that the defendant played significant roles in the graft case, by ordering his subordinates to find a contractor that would provide kickbacks worth 7 percent of the construction budget,' Presiding judge Agus Salim told the court on Wednesday.
The ruling, however, was lighter than the prosecutors' request of eight years in prison.
Beforehand, the same court also sentenced two people, Mandailing Natal regency official Khairul Anwar Daulay and contractor Surung Panjaitan to four-and-a-half, and two years and five months, respectively over the same allegations.(dic)
