Bribery and Prosecutors

There are still unanswered questions about the detention at the end of last month of three people allegedly about to bribe to a prosecutor. The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), which caught the three men red-handed, still owes an explanation. The public should not be left uncertain as to why the person suspected of taking the bribe seems to have remained untouched.

Of the three suspects, the two who were immediately indicted are the director and the manager of Brantas Abipraya, a state-owned company. They actually handed over the money. The other person was the middleman who was to take the bribe money to a prosecutor at the Jakarta Attorney-General's Office (AGO) in order to halt the proceedings in a corruption case involving the Brantas company. But the KPK operation did not detain a single person alleged to have taken the bribe.