The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has imposed travel bans on three officials of Musi Banyuasin regency administration and two Musi Banyuasin Legislative Council (DPRD) members over their alleged involvements in a corruption case surrounding the deliberation of the 2015 regional administration budget plan (RAPBD)
he Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has imposed travel bans on three officials of Musi Banyuasin regency administration and two Musi Banyuasin Legislative Council (DPRD) members over their alleged involvements in a corruption case surrounding the deliberation of the 2015 regional administration budget plan (RAPBD).
'We have received the decrees on the travel bans,' said Yan Welly Wiguna, the head of the public relations sub-division at the Law and Human Rights Ministry's immigration directorate, as quoted by Antara in Jakarta on Tuesday.
The three local officials are Musi Banyuasin regent Pahri Azhari; revenue, financial management and local assets agency head Syamsuddin Fei; and Musi Banyuasin development planning board member Faisyar. Meanwhile, the two DPRD Musi Banyuasing members are Bambang Karyanto from the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) and Adam Munandar of the Gerindra Party.
The KPK has named Syamsuddin, Faisyar, Bambang and Adam as suspects after the antigraft body investigators allegedly caught them red-handed giving out bribes at Bambang's house in Musi Banyuasin on Friday evening.
During the raid, KPK investigators confiscated Rp 2.56 billion (US$192,000) in bribe money for lawmakers Syamsuddin and Faisyar. This was the second instance, as it was previously said that they had received around Rp 2-3 billion in bribes related to the RAPBD deliberation. The total amount of bribes given to the DPRD members is around Rp 17 billion. (ebf)(+++)
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