Lawyer arrested for bribery

Thu, 16 Jun 2005, 00:00 WIB | Source: JP

JAKARTA: A lawyer for suspended Aceh governor Abdullah Puteh
has been arrested after being caught red-handed paying Rp 250
million (US$26,300) as a bribe to a Jakarta High Court clerk.

The prosecutor in the Puteh graft case Khaidir Ramli said on
Wednesday that he and fellow prosecutors busted the lawyer,
Tengku Syaifudin Popon, and the clerk, Syamsul Rizal, while in a
meeting at the latter's office on Tuesday afternoon and found the
cash kept in a black suitcase.

Khaidir said he received a tip-off from an undisclosed source
about the meeting.

"We obtained the information recently, followed it up and
found them along with the money," Khaidir said.

Puteh is appealing his 10 year sentence after the
Anticorruption Court found him guilty last April of marking up
the cost of a Russian-made helicopter purchased with state money.
Due to his ill health, the court granted his request for house
arrest. -- Antara

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