Setya Novanto, the speaker of Indonesia's parliament who has been accused by critics of trying to dodge anti-corruption officials, was transferred by stretcher between hospitals in Jakarta.
Jakarta (AFP) - The speaker of Indonesia's parliament, implicated in a $170 million corruption case, was in hospital Friday after a bizarre drama in which he claimed to have been injured in a car crash shortly after a failed raid on his palatial estate.
The story has dominated headlines and news broadcasts this week in the graft-riddled southeast Asian nation, where images showed a grim-faced Setya Novanto laying in a Jakarta hospital bed with medical tubes in his nose.
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