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Court orders KPK to continue Bank Century probe
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Under investigation: The South Jakarta District Court has ruled on Monday that the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) must continue its investigation into the 2008 Bank Century bailout, which involved former high-ranking officials of Bank Indonesia (pictured). (JP/Wienda Parwitasari)
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he South Jakarta District Court has ordered the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) to continue its investigation into the 2008 Bank Century bailout, which reportedly caused more than Rp 7 trillion (US$508 million) in state losses.
On Monday, sole judge Efendi Muhtar ruled in favor of antigraft activists grouped under the Indonesian Anti-Corruption Community (MAKI), who had filed a pretrial motion against the antigraft body accused of being 'slow' in handling the case.
“[We are] ordering [the KPK] to move on with the investigation […] of alleged corruption related to the Bank Century [bailout],” said Efendi when he read out the ruling on Monday.
The judge said the KPK had to name several figures implicated in the case – including former vice president and then-Bank Indonesia governor Boediono and former Financial Services Authority chairman and then-BI deputy governor Muliaman D. Hadad – as suspects in the case.
“With the ruling, there’s no reason for the KPK not to name new suspects in the Bank Century bailout case,” MAKI coordinator Boyaman Saiman said.
He said MAKI would ask for the official copy of the ruling before handing it out to the KPK and the House of Representatives to monitor its implementation by the antigraft body.
The KPK’s investigation into the case has been in limbo since the Jakarta Corruption Court sentenced the first suspect in the case, former BI deputy governor Budi Mulya, to 10 years of imprisonment in July 2014.
Previously, prosecutors’ indictment against Budi mentioned Boediono and Muliaman’s names, as well as other then-BI board of director members, of playing a role in the case. (ebf)
