KPK Seeks 12 Years for Businessman Over Police Bribery

Jakarta Globe, SP/Novianti Setuningsih, January 2, 2014

Budi Susanto, a defendant in the driving simulator corruption, attends his first
 hearing at the Jakarta Anti-Corruption Court in this September file photo. (JG
Photo/Yudhi Sukma Wijaya)

Prosecutors on Thursday demanded 12 years in prison for a businessman who allegedly bribed disgraced senior police official Djoko Susilo in the corrupt procurement of driving simulators for the National Police.

“Defendant Budi Susanto has been proven guilty of conspiring to corrupt,” Riyono, a prosecutor with the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), said as he read out the indictment during a hearing at the Jakarta Anti-Corruption Court.

Prosecutors also demanded that Budi, the president director of Citra Mandiri Metalindo Abadi, pay more than Rp 88 billion ($7.2 million) in compensation and Rp 500 million in fines, or serve an extra year in prison.

Another KPK prosecutor, Iskandar Marwanto, said Budi had paid Djoko, then National Police traffic director, Rp 36 billion to win his company the tender for the 2011 driving simulator procurement.

Budi also allegedly bribed other police officials to win the marked-up project, worth Rp 142 billion, which is believed to have cost the state Rp 121 billion in losses.

Djoko was sentenced to 10 years in prison in September over the bribery case, before the Jakarta High Court increased the prison term to 18 years last month, following appeals filed separately by Djoko and the KPK.