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AGO in hot water amid corruption allegations
According to the KPK's Anticorruption Clearing House (ACCH), the antigraft body had named seven prosecutors as graft suspects from 2004 to 2018.
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According to the KPK's Anticorruption Clearing House (ACCH), the antigraft body had named seven prosecutors as graft suspects from 2004 to 2018. (Shutterstock/KAMONRAT)
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aw enforcers have again come under the spotlight following fresh allegations of corruption within the Attorney General’s Office (AGO).
On Saturday, the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) named the general crime assistant of the Jakarta High Prosecutors’ Office, Agus Winoto, a suspect for allegedly accepting bribes from lawyer Alvin Suherman and one-time client, businessman Sendy Perico, pertaining to a case handled by his office. Both Alvin and Sendy were also named suspects.
The case revolves around a lawsuit filed by Sendy against Alvin, whom he suspected of embezzling Rp 11 billion (US$780,494) from him. However, during the trial, Sendy and Alvin allegedly agreed to settle the issue amicably, with the latter requesting Sendy help get the prosecution's initial sentence demand of two years in prison lowered.
Alvin and Sendy are accused of subsequently asking the prosecutors through an intermediary to lower their sentence demand.
The intermediary allegedly told the lawyer and the businessman to give the prosecutors Rp 200 million and documents of the agreement between them, in exchange for a lower sentence demand of one year in prison.
“AVS [Alvin] and SPE [Sendy] agreed to the request and promised to give the money by June 28, three days prior to the sentence demand hearing,” KPK deputy chairman Laode Muhammad Syarif claimed during a press briefing on Saturday.
On Friday, Alvin allegedly met Yadi Herianto, an official with the high prosecutor’s office, to hand over the money and the documents. Laode claimed that Yadi later brought the money to Agus, who had the authority to approve the sentence demand in the case.
