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KPK names Mojokerto mayor bribery suspect
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The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has named Mas’ud Yunus, the mayor of Mojokerto in East Java, a bribery suspect in a case allegedly implicating government officials and politicians in the municipality. (Antara/Akbar Nugroho Gumay)
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he Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has named Mas’ud Yunus, the mayor of Mojokerto in East Java, a bribery suspect in a case implicating government officials and politicians in the municipality.
“We found sufficient evidence to allege that the mayor bribed the Mojokerto Legislative Council speaker [Purnomo]. He [allegedly] committed the crime along with Wiwiet Febriyanto, an agency official," KPK spokesman Febri Diansyah said during a press conference on Thursday.
The KPK had named Wiwiet and Purnomo suspects in the same case in June.
KPK investigators caught red-handed Wiwiet, the head of the Mojokerto Public Works and Spatial Planning Agency, engaging in an act of bribery allegedly involving the council's speaker and two suspects in an operation in June. They allegedly promised to pay around Rp 470 million (US$34,838) in bribes in the case related to the municipality's budget.
Febri added that the KPK issued a letter ordering for the start of an investigation into Mas’ud on Nov. 17.
The Surabaya Corruption Court declared Wiwiet guilty of bribery in the case in a hearing on Nov. 10 and sentenced him to two years' imprisonment. Meanwhile, the trial process of the other suspects is ongoing in the same court. (ebf)
