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Zumi Zola pleads guilty to bribery
Zumi handed over a Burberry coat and a luxury car to investigators.
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Non-active Jambi governor Zumi Zola. (Antara/Wahdi Septiawan)
Non-active Jambi governor Zumi Zola Zulkifli has plead guilty in two different cases to bribery and gratuity.
“I’m guilty [as charged], Your Honor],” Zumi said during a hearing at the Jakarta Corruption Court on Monday, as quoted by kompas.com.
Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) prosecutors indicted Zumi of channeling Rp 16 billion (US$1 million) in bribes to dozens of Jambi Legislative Council members in order to influence the deliberations of the 2017 and 2018 provincial budgets. The non-active governor was also accused of accepting unlawful gifts amounting to more than Rp 40 billion in connection to infrastructure projects in Jambi from 2016 to 2017.
During the hearing, Zumi also alleged that officials of the National Mandate Party (PAN) in Jambi once made a request to him to be granted an infrastructure project in the province valued at around Rp 100 billion.
“I heard word of the request from Asrul although it was not granted. I don’t know which project they were talking about,” Zumi said, referring to his aide Asrul Pandapotan Sihotang.
Asrul allegedly received the request from PAN councilor Supriyono. The corruption court found the councilor guilty of accepting bribes and sentenced him to six years behind bars in a separate case.
The non-active governor said he had handed over a Burberry coat, valued at around Rp 3 million, as well as a luxury car he obtained through Asrul to investigators. He said he believed the items were part of the unlawful gifts given by contractors. (kuk/swd)
