Japanese National is First Foreigner to Be Detained by KPK

Jakarta Globe, SP/Novianti Setuningsi, May 13, 2012

President Director Shiokawa Toshio, of Onamba Indonesia, was saddled
 with the unenviable distinction of being the first foreigner detained by the
Corruption Eradication Commission on Saturday. Toshio allegedly bribed an
ad-hoc judge for a favorable ruling over the futures of 176 workers on strike
at a Onamba factory. (Antara Photo)

           

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For the first time in its history, the Corruption Eradication Commission has detained a foreigner accused of bribery.

Japanese national Shiokawa Toshio, the president director of Onamba Indonesia, has been named a suspect for bribing Imas Dianasari, a former ad-hoc judge at the Bandung Municipal Court’s industrial relations tribunal.

“For the purposes of our investigation, we have decided to detain S.T., a Japanese citizen, for the next 20 days,” Johan Budi, the spokesman for the antigraft agency known as the KPK, told journalists on Friday.

In January, the Bandung Anti-Corruption Court found Imas guilty of taking bribes from the Japanese-owned Onamba Indonesia, an electrical wire manufacturer, and sentenced her to six years in jail.

She was also ordered to pay Rp 200 million ($22,000) in fines.

Onamba had been sued by a union for laying off 176 striking workers. Imas ruled in favor of the company and allowed it to discontinue the employment of the workers who joined the strike.

Subsequently, the company, through its human resource manager Odih Juanda, paid Rp 200 million to Imas with the understanding that she would help the company bribe a justice at the Supreme Court to rule in its favor during the appeal.

Odih was sentenced to four years in prison in January.

According to Johan, Shiokawa faces a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison and fines of up to Rp 750 million if found guilty of “providing money to the judge.”