KPK told to procee with graft case

KPK told to procee with graft case

JAKARTA: A panel of judges in the court hearing of a Rp 10.2
billion (US$1.13 million) graft case involving the procurement of
land to build a seaport in Tual, Maluku, with main suspects Let
Let and Tarcisius Walla, rejected their defense statements.

"The panel of judges rejected the defense statement from the
defendants and declared the indictment, submitted by the
prosecutors from the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK),
valid, thus the prosecutors should continue with the case," Head
of the panel Mansyurdin Chaniago said in the preliminary verdict
on Monday.

Mansyurdin added that both defendants were charged under Law
No. 31/1999, Law No. 20/2001 and Article 55 of the Criminal Code.

The panel also decided to keep both defendants under detention
in Salemba Penitentiary.

The trial, which took place in Uppindo Building in Jakarta,
will continue on Tuesday. -- JP