JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/Asia News Network): The Jakarta Corruption Court sentenced on Thursday (Feb 17) senior Golkar Party politician and former House of Representatives deputy speaker Azis Syamsuddin to three-and-a-half-years in prison for bribing a lawyer and a then-investigator to evade an investigation into a graft case in Central Lampung.
The panel of judges found him guilty of paying Rp 3.09 billion (US$215,515) and $36,000 in bribes in 2020 and 2021 to then-investigator Stepanus Robin Pattuju, a police officer who at the time was seconded to the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), and lawyer Maskur Husain.
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