Indonesian graft buster probes acid attack on himself as police draw blank


  • World
  • Friday, 24 Aug 2018

JAKARTA (Reuters) - A top Indonesian anti-corruption investigator plans to release the findings of his own probe into an acid attack that partially blinded him last year, after a failure by police up to now to solve the case.

Novel Baswedan, an investigator at the country's Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), has undergone multiple surgeries on his eyes since acid was flung in his face while he was walking home from a mosque in April, 2017/

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