Damayanti , a lawmaker from the ruling Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) has been arrested on charge of receiving bribe from PT WTU to ensure that the company would be granted the contract for the projects of the public works and housing ministry in Maluku.
Two witnesses to be questioned on Monday are also suspects including Dessy A. Edwin and insurance agent of PT Allianz Insurance Life Julia Prasetyarini.
"Dessy and Julia would be questioned in the case with Damayanti Wisnu Putranti as the suspect," KPK spokes person Yuyuk Andriati said here .
In the process of investigations KPK already raided the working offices at the Parliament of Damayanti and two other lawmakers Budi Supriyanto, from the Golkar party and Yudi Widiana,from the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS).
A parliament leader Fahri Hamzah, strongly protested the raid but KPK ignored the protest saying it had followed the proper procedure.
KPK suspected that Damayanri is not the lawmaker involved in the graft case.
Another team of KPK officers also raided the office of the directorate general of highway construction and maintenance of the public works ministry.
KPK charged Damayanti , Julia Prasetyarini (UWI) and Dessy A Edwin (DES) with receiving US$33,000 each in bribe from PT WTU director Abdul Khoir.
The payments were part of US$404,000 as fee" pledged by PT WTU to Damayanty.
If found guilty they could be sentenced up to 20 years in jail with a fine of Rp1 billion each.
In 2016, Maluku islands including Seram will have 19 packages of infrastructure projects including roads and bridges now in the process of tenders.
Abdul Khoir was also named suspect in the graft case facing an imprison term of 5 years with a fine up to Rp2250 million.
KPK is investigating where the remaining US$305,000 had been given by Abdul Kohir.(*)
Editor: Heru Purwanto
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