Juliari Batubara, Indonesia's ex-social affairs minister, is pictured outside a court in Jakarta on Monday, August 23, 2021, where he was sentenced to 12 years jail for taking US$1.2 million in bribes linked to food aid for poor families hit by the pandemic. - AFP
JAKARTA, Aug 23 (Reuters): Former Indonesian social affairs minister Juliari Batubara has been sentenced to 12 years in prison over a multi-million dollar Covid-19 graft scandal, the Jakarta Corruption Court ruled on Monday.
A judge said the former politician was found "convincingly guilty of corruption" after receiving 32.4 billion rupiah ($2.25 million) in kickbacks in relation to the procurement of goods intended for COVID-19 social assistance packages.
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