JAKARTA, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- Prosecutors of Indonesia's Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) ordered on Monday a four-year and two-month sentence in jail for the country's former house of representatives deputy speaker Azis Syamsuddin for his alleged involvement in a bribery case.
At the Central Jakarta Corruption Court, the prosecutors also demanded that Syamsuddin pay a fine of 250 million Indonesian rupiahs (about 17,400 U.S. dollars) and his political right to run for office be revoked for five years after serving his punishment.
As a senior Golkar Party politician, Syamsuddin was suspected of allegedly paying 3.1 billion rupiahs (about 216,180 dollars) and 36,000 dollars in bribes to former KPK investigator Stepanus Robin Pattuju and lawyer Maskur Husain in 2020.
He allegedly made the move in a bid to prevent his name and another cadre of the Golkar Party from showing up in a KPK investigation into a graft case in Central Lampung district, Lampung province.
Syamsuddin, who was arrested at his residence in South Jakarta by the anti-graft body's investigators in September last year, resigned from his post shortly after his arrest. ■