REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has raided the office of an East Java regional lawmaker and confiscated Rp78 million believed to be a graft money.
Mochammad Basuki, chairman of the Commission B of the provincial legislative body has been arrested by KPK on charge of graft over supervision of budget and revision of regional regulation.
"There was an amount of money we confiscated in the raid yesterday from the office of Mochamad Basuki," KPK spokesman Febri Diansyah said here on Thursday.
Febri said KPK also confiscated Rp100 million from someone, who claimed that the money belonged to Basuki.
"The man said he was friend of Basuki, who asked him to keep the money," Febri said.
On Wednesday KPK raided five places in East Java including the office of the regional legislative assembly, the regional offices of animal husbandry service and agriculture service, and houses including Basuki's house, he said.
KPK also confiscated documents, electronic goods in addition to money, he said.
KPK has named Basuki of the Gerindra faction a graft suspect after 24 hour investigation.
After 24 hour investigations, KPK named six suspects including Basuki and two staff members of the Legislative Assembly identified as Rahman Agung Santoso as the recipients of the bribe money.
The three other suspects were head of regional office of teh agriculture service Bambang Heryanto, his adjutant Anang Basuki Rahmat and head of the East Java office of the animal husbandry service Rohayati, who provided the bribe money.
The suspects were arrested after caught red handed by KPK committing the bribery in Surabaya and Malang on Monday.
Basuki was believed to have received hundreds of millions of rupiahs since May,
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