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KPK urged to follow up on Djoko Tjandra case after court verdict
Djoko Tjandra was sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison for bribing police generals and an Attorney General's Office prosecutor in exchange for securing a Supreme Court acquittal.
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Graft defendant Djoko Soegiarto Tjandra poses during a hearing at the Jakarta Corruption Court on Tuesday. The judges sentence him to four-and-a-half years in prison and ordered him to pay a Rp 100 million (US$6,876) fine for bribing police generals and a prosecutor to secure a Supreme Court acquittal. (Antara/Hafidz Mubarak A.)
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he Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) is facing pressure to dig deeper into a case involving graft convict Djoko Soegiarto Tjandra to address unanswered questions.
A panel of judges at the Jakarta Corruption Court sentenced Djoko on Monday to four-and-a-half years in prison and slapped him with a fine of Rp 100 million (US$6,867) for bribing police generals and an Attorney General Office (AGO) prosecutor to secure a Supreme Court acquittal.
The verdict was heavier than the sentence demanded by prosecutors, who were aiming for four years’ imprisonment.
The bench found several aggravating factors that led to the heavier sentence, including Djoko’s escape from his previous sentence. In 2009, the Supreme Court sentenced Djoko to two years’ imprisonment and ordered him to pay Rp 546 billion as restitution for his involvement in the high-profile Bank Bali corruption case. However, he fled to Papua New Guinea a day before the court ruling and remained at large for over a decade.
The police brought him back to Indonesia in July 2020 after arresting him in Malaysia.
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Djoko was found guilty of bribing suspended AGO prosecutor Pinangki Sirna Malasari with $500,000 in exchange for a not-guilty verdict from the Supreme Court. The money was given through a middleman, former NasDem Party politician Andi Irfan Jaya.
