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Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) chairman Agus Rahardjo (left) and Attorney General’s Office junior attorney for intelligence affairs Adi Toegarisman speak to journalists on Friday to announce the arrest of three people in a bribery case. (Antara/Akbar Nugroho Gumay )
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he Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) arrested three men on Thursday, including two senior executives of a state-owned enterprise (SOE), before naming them suspects in a bribery case on Friday.
"The KPK nabbed three people at a hotel in Cawang, East Jakarta, on Thursday morning," KPK chairman Agus Rahardjo told journalists at the KPK headquarters in Jakarta on Friday.
The two SOE executives were identified only as Sudi Wantoko, a financial director, and Dandung Pamularno, a senior company manager. The third suspect was named as Marudut, from a private company.
The case is linked to efforts to interfere a corruption case being handled by the Jakarta Prosecutor’s Office.
The anticorruption body moved on communications between Marudut and Dandung indicating a plan to meet on Thursday. KPK investigators surveilled them as they met at a hotel at 8:20 a.m. on Thursday.
"Dandung gave money to Marudut in the men's toilet on the first floor," Agus said, adding that during the operation KPK investigators seized US$148,835 of bribe money.
Sudi, Dandung and Marudut are accused of violating the Corruption Law.
The KPK also questioned Jakarta Prosecutor's Office head Sudung Situmorang and special law assistant Tomo Sitepu as witnesses on Friday to ascertain whether they had played roles in the case.
The KPK is working together with the Attorney General's Office (AGO) on the case. (bbn)
