Three years ago, investigators of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) raided the residence of one Edison Marudut Marsadauli Siahaan. Edison, who is a businessman and a cadre of the Democratic Party, is involved in a bribery related to the conversion of forest land that had ensnared the disgraced Governor of Riau Annas Maamun. Three years has passed and recently we learned that Surya Darmadi, the owner of Duta Palma Group whose name was mentioned repeatedly for allegedly providing bribes in the case, had filed a lawsuit against the KPK. Surya filed a pre-trial lawsuit questioning the KPK’s decision to name him as suspect.

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