Former Bandung Mayor to Serve 10 Years for Bribery

Jakarta Globe, Apr 28, 2014

Bandung Mayor Dada Rosada outside the Corruption Eradication Commission
headquarters in Jakarta on April 4, 2013. (JG Photo/Afriadi Hikmal).

Jakarta. The Bandung Anti-Corruption Court on Monday sentenced former Bandung mayor Dada Rosada to serve ten years in prison for bribing judges.

“[We are] declaring the defendant validly and convincingly guilty of… corruption,” presiding judge Nurhakim said at a hearing, as quoted by Indonesian news portal Detik.com. “[The court] hands down a ten-year prison sentence, minus served time.”

The court also imposed a fine of Rp 600 million ($51,600) or an additional three months.

Prosecutors had demanded a fifteen-year sentence.

Dada was found guilt of paying off District Court judges to rig the trial of seven city officials found guilty of embezzling approximately $7 million in social-aid funds intended to help the city’s poorest residents. He was also found guilty of paying bribes to the West Java High Court.

Dada colluded in the payoffs with Former Bandung Secretary Edi Siswadi, who was sentenced to serve eight years in prison and fined Rp 500 million ($43,800) by a panel of judges at the West Java Corruption Court on Thursday. Former district court judge Setyabudi Tejocahyono was found guilty of taking bribe money and sentenced to serve 12 years.

Former Bandung Asset Management Agency head Herry Nurhayat is awaiting trail for his alleged role in the graft.

The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) said it caught Setyabudi red-handed taking bribe money from businessman Toto Hutagalung, a close friend of Dada, in March of 2013.