he Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has arrested the head of the Indonesian Young Entrepreneurs Association (HIPMI) and a member of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) Mardani H Maming for allegedly taking bribes from a coal-business tycoon in a mining-permit-transfer deal.
Accompanied by his attorney, Mardani surrendered himself on Thursday after he was deemed “uncooperative” and put on KPK’s most-wanted list on Tuesday following several failed attempts to bring him in for questioning.
KPK deputy chairman Alexander Marwata said that Mardani will be detained for 20 days at the agency’s detention house for further questioning by the investigative team after he was named a suspect.
“Sufficient initial evidence has been found; therefore, KPK raised the status of the case to an investigation with MM as a suspect,” Marwata said in a live-streamed press briefing.
Bribe to mine
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