JAKARTA (Yosefardi) – Panel of judges at the Jakarta Corruption Court has on Monday (Oct. 19) sentenced former Regent of Bangkalan Fuad Amin Imron to eight years in prison after proven guilty of receiving bribe from PT Media Karya Sentosa (MKS).
Fuad, a politician from Prabowo Subianto’s Gerindra Party, has been also ordered to pay Rp1 billion in fine or serving additional six months imprisonment.
The verdict, however, is lighter than the prosecutor’s demand of fifteen years imprisonment plus Rp3 billion in fine or serving additional eleven months imprisonment.
Back in December 1, 2014, Fuad, at that time served as Speaker of the Bangkalan Legislative Council (DPRD), was caught red-handed by KPK’s investigators along with two other suspects in the case in a bribery transaction. KPK seized Rp700 million of bribe money from the transaction.
KPK then charged Fuad with graft and money laundering articles. According to KPK, Fuad’s seized assets, in form of billions rupiah plus lands and properties, amount to the largest number of assets that the KPK ever seized in a graft case. (haryantosuharman@yosefardi.com)