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One-star Navy admiral named bribery suspect
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Big fish: Eko Susilo Hadi (left), an official in charge of information, law and cooperation at the Maritime Security Board (Bakamla), is escorted to a car at the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) building in Jakarta on Thursday. Eko was arrested on Wednesday for his alleged involvement in a bribery case involving logistics procurement at Bakamla. (Antara/Hafidz Mubarak A.)
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he military police said on Friday that they had named Commodore Bambang Udoyono, a one-star admiral in the Navy, a suspect for allegedly receiving bribes from a company that secured billions of rupiah to supply satellite surveillance systems to the Maritime Security Board (Bakamla).
Investigators at the military police named Bambang, Bakamla’s director of data and information, a suspect after they raided his house and found foreign money amounting to SGD 80,000 (US$55,393) and US$15,000.
“We will summon BU [to be questioned] as a suspect of corruption,” military police chief May. Gen. Dodik Wijanarko said in a press conference at the Indonesian Military headquarters in East Jakarta on Friday.
The military police had investigated Bambang after the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) submitted evidence of his alleged malfeasance. The admiral has been accused of rigging the bid for the project worth Rp 222 billion (US$16.4 million) in favor of PT Melati Technofo Indonesia (MTI).
(Read also: KPK looks into large-scale maritime graft)
The identity of Bambang, an official assigned to oversee the project, emerged during the KPK’s surveillance of deputy Bakamla chief Eko Susilo Hadi, a non-military official at Bakamla in charge of the budget for the project. Eko was arrested by the KPK on Dec. 14 at Bakamla’s office for allegedly accepting Rp 2 billion from MTI. (jun)
