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View all search resultsThe Jakarta Corruption Court sentenced on Thursday senior Golkar Party politician and former House of Representatives deputy speaker Azis Syamsuddin to three-and-a-half-years in prison for bribing a lawyer and a then-investigator to evade an investigation into a graft case in Central Lampung.
A string of high-profile corruption cases currently being handled by the Attorney General’s Office (AGO) appears to have taken the spotlight off the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), calling into question the focus of the commission, which was famous in the past for its handling of major graft cases.
The Jakarta Corruption Court has handed heavier-than-expected sentences to four former directors of state insurer PT Asabri convicted of involvement in a multitrillion-rupiah corruption scandal at the institution, arguing that the prosecutors’ sentencing demands were too light given the severity of the crimes.
The Attorney General Office’s (AGO) plan to seek capital punishment for corruptors implicated in two of Indonesia’s largest graft cases has been met with raised eyebrows from experts and antigraft activists, who highlighted the prosecutors’ office inconsistent stance for indicting graft suspects in the past.
The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has detained the former president director of state-owned port operator PT Pelindo II, RJ Lino, in a move that marks progress in the long-running graft case that has been under investigation since 2015.
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