JAKARTA (Yosefardi) – Anggoro Widjojo, a main suspect in the graft case of the 2007 procurement of an integrated radio communications system (SKRT) at the Ministry of Forestry, will go on the first trial Wednesday (April 23), charged for bribing lawmakers and the Forestry Ministry’s officials.
The trial will be held at the Jakarta Corruption Court at 9:00 am of Jakarta time.
The trial will be likely under the public spotlight since the case also implicating high-profile names.
They are Malem Sambat Kaban aka MS Kaban (former Minister of Forestry and now Chairman of Crescent Star Party/PBB) and Suswono (former Deputy Head of the House of
Representatives/DPR Commission IV for 2004-2009 period, PKS politician, and now Minister of Agriculture).
KPK’s investigation into the SKRT graft case has been revived after KPK arrested Anggoro Widjojo in Shenzhen, China, in January 27, 2014.
In 2007, Anggoro’s company PT Masaro Radiokom won the tender of the Rp180 billion SKRT project through allegedly bribing lawmakers and the Forestry Ministry’s officials.
The SKRT graft case had so far dragged four figures into convicts. They are:
1) President Director of PT Masaro Radiokom, Putranevo A. Prayogo, sentenced for 6 years in jail
2) Former Head of the Forestry Ministry’s Planning & Finance Bureau, Wandjojo Siswanto, sentenced for 3 years and 4 months in jail
3) Head of the House Commission IV and politician from PKB, Yusuf Erwin Faisal, sentenced for 4.5 years in jail
4) Anggoro’s younger brother, Anggodo Widjojo, sentenced for 10 years in jail. (haryantos@yosefardi.biz)