Jakarta Globe, Jun 24, 2015
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| Annas Maamun, the suspended governor of Riau province in Sumatra, was sentenced to six years in jail on Wednesday for issuing permits to a businessman to clear 140 hectares of protected forest. (Antara Photo/Agus Bebeng) |
Jakarta.
The Bandung Anticorruption Court has sentenced the suspended governor of
Sumatra’s Riau province, Annas Maamun, to six years in prison for taking bribes
to issue forestry concessions to a local businessman.
The court
on Wednesday also fined Annas Rp 200 million ($15,040) after finding him guilty
of taking a Rp 2 billion bribe for the permits to clear 140 hectares of
ostensibly protected forest in the province. The sentence was the same as that
sought by prosecutors from the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK),
although the fine was less than the Rp 250 million demanded by the KPK.
Gulat
Medali Emas Manurung, the businessman said to have paid the bribe, has been
charged in the same case.
The pair
were busted red-handed transacting the bribe at a house in East Jakarta last
September by the KPK.
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