Day: January 3, 2017

The Supreme Court finally published the long-awaited Regulation of the Supreme Court (Perma) to handle criminal offences committed by corporations. Perma No. 13/2016 specifically mentions that corporations can be a place to hide wealth that are proceeds of crime and thus left untouched by the law due to the legal vacuum on the issue. Indeed, the procedures and inspection guidelines against corporation as a criminal entity were not clearly regulated. And so the Supreme Court takes the role as the judicial power to fill the legal vacuum and provide guidelines for law enforcement officers in the handling of criminal cases committed by a corporations.

Closer to the end of 2016, the KPK conducted five more sting operations (OTTs) and ensnared, among others, two regional leaders of two different municipalities in Central Java. Below are the summary of the KPK’s last five OTT of 2016.

Throughout 2016, the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) conducted dozens of Sting Operations (OTT) and expanded their investigations to more than 20 cases of corruption. Over 100 suspects comprised of State Officials, businessmen, and other parties were named. We summarized six OTT in the first article. In this second part, we summarize the 7th to the 12th OTT.