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View all search resultsThe arrest of communications and information minister Johnny G. Plate on corruption charges this week has sparked fresh calls by politicians for a Cabinet reshuffle, with at least one media mogul prepared to fill the newly vacant post amid a rush to influence the selection of a successor.
Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) chairman Firli Bahuri got himself embroiled in yet another controversy last week after he flew to Papua to meet a high-profile governor under bribery investigation.
The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) will allow the police and the rights body to interrogate its detainee – graft suspect and inactive Langkat regent Terbit Rencana Peranginangin – about the dozens of people who were found kept in cages at his home in North Sumatra and allegedly forced to work on his oil palm plantation.
Social Affairs Minister Juliari Batubara and his subordinates had purportedly accepted roughly Rp 12 billion (US$582,020) in bribes from a number of suppliers during the first wave of the ministry’s aid distribution.
Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) chairman Firli Bahuri said during a press conference on Sunday morning that Juliari, along with his subordinates Matheus Joko Santoso and Adi Wahyono, had purportedly accepted roughly Rp 12 billion (US$582,020) in bribes from a number of suppliers during the first wave of the ministry’s aid distribution earlier this year.
Graft convict Djoko Soegiarto Tjandra has admitted to giving money to Brig. Gen. Prasetyo Utomo and Insp. Gen. Napoleon Bonaparte for allowing him to travel to and within the country when he was a fugitive, the National Police have said.
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