It seems that the popular expression of the snake biting its tail was invented for this type of business. The head of Indonesia’s anti-corruption commission has been named as a suspect in a corruption case, police said Thursday, undermining the reputation of an agency created two decades ago after the fall of dictator Suharto.
Firli Bahuri is suspected of extortion and accepting gifts or bribes in connection with cases handled with the Ministry of Agriculture from 2020 to 2023. Head of the Indonesian Anti-Violence Eradication Commission corruption (KPK), the suspect, who has not been officially arrested, will be questioned “as a suspect for an alleged crime of corruption”, declared a director of the Jakarta police, Ade Safri Simanjuntak.
As part of the investigation, police conducted searches at two properties, questioned more than 90 people and seized evidence, including Singapore and US dollar exchange documents between 2021 and 2023, amounting to more than 7 .4 billion rupees ($478,000), police said. Firli Bahuri has repeatedly rejected the accusations against him.
Suspect faces life in prison if convicted of corruption
If Firlin Bahuri, former police chief of the South Sumatra region, is convicted of corruption, he faces life in prison. Indonesia, ranked 110th country out of 180 in the corruption perception index of the NGO Transparency International, regularly faces corruption cases.
Thus, Syahrul Yasin Limpo, until very recently Indonesian Minister of Agriculture, was arrested last month, accused in particular of having embezzled more than 800,000 dollars of public funds. In 2021, a former social affairs minister was sentenced to twelve years in prison for taking $1.2 million in bribes in connection with a food aid program for poor families affected by the coronavirus pandemic. coronavirus.