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Former Salatiga mayor found dead in prison
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Prison guards in Kedungpane Penitentiary found former Salatiga mayor John Manuel Manoppo, 70, dead inside his prison cell on early Monday . (Shutterstock/File)
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he former mayor of Salatiga, Central Java, John Manuel Manoppo, who was sentenced to five years in prison for graft in 2013 was found dead inside his prison cell at Kedungpane Penitentiary in the provincial capital Semarang on Monday.
The warden of Kedungpane prison, Taufiqurrahman, said a prison guard found John to be unresponsive on Monday morning and he was immediately rushed to the facility's medical center.
"He was quite old, 70 years old," Taufiq said as quoted by tribunnews.com.
The warden added that John also suffered from diabetes and had been undergoing treatment.
The Semarang Corruption Court in April 2014 sentenced John to five years in prison and a fine of Rp 100 million (US$10,276), or an additional three months in jail, for his involvement in the Salatiga southern ring road (JLS) graft case.
The former mayor, without the recommendation of the bidding committee, awarded the JLS project to joint venture PT Kuntjup-PT Kadi International. Kuntjup-Kadi had bid Rp 47 billion while another company, PT Bali Pacific, bid Rp 42 billion.
