IT was past midnight when four police detectives of the Greater Jakarta Police entered the Gading Park View housing complex in North Jakarta. They arrived in front of a house at the end of a dead end street at almost 2am on Sunday, two weeks ago. “They were assigned to stake out the house,” said one mid ranking officer from the Jakarta Police.

The large two floor home belonged to Gayus Halomoan Tambunan, who has been charged over a bribery a