Law Journal: Updates on the Bakamla Graft Case and the Yayasan Supersemar Dispute

The trial of the latest defendant in the case of bribery involving the Maritime Security Agency (Bakamla) ended yesterday. The investigation into the graft case, however, continues because the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) named a new suspect last month. The Attorney General’s Office (AGO), meanwhile, is still struggling to execute the verdict against Yayasan Supersemar, a foundation belonging to the family of former president Soeharto. The foundation was ordered to compensate the State in the amount of Rp4.4 trillion, but to this day, the AGO has only been able to retrieve over Rp200 billion from the foundations’ bank accounts.

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