JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's corruption court on Thursday sentenced a former top prosecutor to 20 years in prison for taking bribes in a high-profile graft case involving the attorney general's office.
Urip Tri Gunawan was detained by the Corruption Eradication Commission in March and charged with accepting $660,000 in cash soon after his office dropped a graft investigation against Indonesian tycoon Sjamsul Nursalim.
The chief judge told the court that Gunawan had been found guilty, and that he had been sentenced to 20 years in jail and fined 500 million rupiah ($54,340).
Gunawan had led the attorney general's investigation into the alleged misuse of central bank funds by Nursalim's bank at the time of the Asian financial crisis, but his office dropped the probe earlier this year."
Thursday, 4 September 2008
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