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KPK to announce Jero's status next week
The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) says it will announce the status of Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Jero Wacik with regard to an alleged bribery case in his ministry next week
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he Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) says it will announce the status of Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Jero Wacik with regard to an alleged bribery case in his ministry next week.
Since December 2013, the graft body's investigators have been grilling Jero as a witness in the bribery case implicating former Upstream Oil and Gas Regulatory Special Task Force (SKKMigas) chief Rudi Rubiandini, who has been sentenced to seven years' imprisonment by the Jakarta Corruption Court's panel of judges.
KPK deputy chairman Bambang Widjojanto revealed that his commission had conducted an investigation to expose Jero's alleged involvement in the case.
'Johan Budi will announce it [Jero's status] next week,' he said, as quoted by Antara news agency in Jakarta on Thursday.
Allegations of Jero's alleged involvement in the bribery appeared in August last year when KPK investigators found US$200,000 in cash in the office of the ministry's secretary-general, Waryono Karno. They suspected that the cash was part of a bribe because in October they had witnessed Rudi accepting $400,000 in bribes, from a total commitment fee of $700,000, from Singapore-based oil trading company Kernel Oil Pte Ltd. In previous investigations, Jero said that he did not know anything about the cash. (alz/ebf)
