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Anti-graft
organization Indonesian Corruption Watch will report the subsidiary of US
mining giant Freeport-McMoRan to the US Department of Justice next month for
involvement in a bribery case.
“We’re
drafting the report and we will send it in one or two months,” deputy chairman
of ICW Adnan Topan Husodo said during a national seminar on corruption on
Thursday.
He said
that US law does not allow US companies operating in other countries to take
part in bribery.
Human
rights group Imparsial revealed that police received $64 million from Freeport
between 1995 and 2004. National Police spokesman Gen. Timur Pradopo verified
the payments, calling them “lunch money.” Timur promised an audit.
“Even
though it is being called a grant from Freeport, it was not supposed to be
given to the National Police,” Adnan said. “The security budget should be given
to the state budget because the National Police are a government institution
funded by the state budget, instead of by a private company.”
Adnan said
receiving money outside of the state budget equaled bribery.
“Letting
the police receive ‘security payments’ from private institutions will disrupt
police independence,” he said.
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