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KPK calls on customs in justice bribery case
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KPK deputy chairpersons Basaria Panjaitan (right) and La Ode Muhammad Syarif make a press statement that Constitutional Court justice Patrialis Akbar allegedly accepted bribes from a beef importing company at the Corruption Eradication Commission office in Jakarta on Jan. 26.
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he Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) visited on Monday the office of the Directorate General of Customs and Excise in relation to an investigation into a bribery case in which former Constitutional Court justice Patrialis Akbar has been implicated.
KPK spokesperson Febri Diansyah said the visit had been prompted by the results of a judicial review on the Husbandry Law that Patrialis presided over.
A former lawmaker and law minister, Patrialis has been accused of accepting US$20,000 and S$200,000 from beef importer Basuki Hariman.
The customs and excise office said the antigraft body had asked for its help to probe the case.
"A KPK team visited us [customs and excise office] to request data from nine beef import companies in its investigation into the former justice," said Heru Pambudi, the Finance Ministry's director general of customs and excise, on Monday, after the raid.
Heru said the customs office fully supported the KPK in its investigation and was gathering data from its archives in Tanjung Priok and Marunda, North Jakarta.
He said he also remained open to the possibility of gathering import data from other ports for the probe.(mrc/wit)
