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Greater Jakarta: Zumi Zola indicted for bribery
Prosecutors from the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) have indicted non-active Jambi governor and former actor Zumi Zola Zulkifli for bribery in two different cases that rocked his political career
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rosecutors from the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) have indicted non-active Jambi governor and former actor Zumi Zola Zulkifli for bribery in two different cases that rocked his political career.
In the indictment presented at the Jakarta Corruption Court on Thursday, KPK prosecutors accused Zumi of accepting unlawful gifts amounting to more than Rp 40 billion (US$2.7 million) in connection to infrastructure projects in Jambi from 2016 to 2017.
The KPK also accused Zumi of channeling Rp 16 billion in bribes to dozens of Jambi Legislative Council (DPRD) members in order to influence the deliberations of the 2017 and 2018 provincial budgets.
The prosecutors said the alleged bribes were channeled through a middleman, Apif Firmansyah, who was Zumi’s treasurer during his gubernatorial campaign.
Zumi began his tenure in Jambi’s top post in February 2016 having won the first concurrent regional elections the previous year. He had previously served as East Tanjung Jabung regent in 2011.
