Over a year ago, the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) uncovered a bribery case involving Bowo Sidik Pangarso (who at the time was a member of the Commission VI of the House of Representatives representing Golkar). Soon, its investigation uncovered more allegations of crimes. Bowo allegedly received over Rp10 billion in grafts from several parties. On December 4, 2019, Bowo was declared guilty though the trial failed to summon some of the names Bowo mentioned. We had to wait more than half a year before the KPK could complete the docket of the most important suspect in the case: then Director of PT Humpuss Transportasi Kimia (PT HTK) one Taufik Agustono, who is supposedly the mastermind of the case. On Sep. 16, 2020, Taufik’s trial began.
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