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Bandung mayor named suspect in bribery case
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The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) headquarters, located in South Jakarta, is pictured in this undated photograph. (Shutterstock/Vivi Octiasari)
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he Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) on Sunday named Bandung Mayor Yana Mulyana and two officials of the city administration as suspects in a bribery case centering on a botched procurement of the internet infrastructure for Bandung's smart city project.
Yana was arrested on Friday at his official residence in Bandung, West Java, while Bandung Transportation Agency head Dadang Darmawan and secretary Khairul Rijal were arrested in different locations that day.
KPK deputy chairman Nurul Ghufron told a press conference in the early hours on Sunday that Yana and his men were allegedly accepting bribes from executives of two private companies which provided internet services and CCTV cameras for the smart city program in the 2022-2023 fiscal year.
KPK investigators have arrested the businessmen in question: a director and a manager of PT Sarana Mitra Adiguna (SMA), identified only by their initials BN and AG, and a CEO of PT Citra Jelajah Informatika (CIFO), identified by his initials SS. They all were accused of paying bribes to Yana.
Investigators also confiscated a total of Rp 924 million (US$62,500) in rupiah and foreign currencies.
Nurul said Yana’s involvement with PT SMA and PT CIFO started not long after he came into office in 2022 following the death of Bandung mayor Oded Mohamad Danial. Yana previously was Oded’s deputy mayor.
Yana first met with the three businessmen of the two companies in his official residence in Bandung in August 2022, when his administration was looking for CCTV and internet service providers for the Bandung smart city project at the time, according to Nurul.
