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KPK welcomes guilty verdict for Irman Gusman
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Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Deputy chairpersons Basaria Panjaitan (right) and Laode M Syarif (center) as well as KPK spokesman Febri Diansyah deliver a press conference on Jan. 26. (Antara/Wahyu Putro A)
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he Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has welcomed a guilty verdict by the Jakarta Corruption Court sentencing former Regional Representatives Council (DPD) speaker Irman Gusman to four and a half years in prison and barring him from public office for three years after his jail term.
The panel of judges also ordered Irman to pay Rp 200 million (US$15,000) in fines or spend an additional three months behind bars.
KPK spokesman Febri Diansyah said he hoped the judges continued to punish corrupt public officials, especially those who were elected by the people, with the revocation of their political rights.
“We hope such a punishment will have a deterrent effect on public officials that were elected by the public,” he said in a briefing on Monday.
Article 35 of the Criminal Code gives the court power to strip up to six rights off convicts, including their political rights to vote or be elected.
(Read also: Judges hand imprisonment sentence to DPD speaker bribers)
Irman has been convicted in a bribery case that also implicates sugar importer CV Semesta Berjaya’s co-owners, Xaveriandy Sutanto and Memi.
The court found Irman guilty of abusing his influence to lobby the State Logistics Agency (Bulog) to award a higher sugar import quota to the company. (mrc/bbs)
