Former Indonesian communications ministry officials jailed in data centre graft case
The Straits Times
Yhe court also fined the pair Rp 500 million (S$37,655) each, or an additional 140 days in jail. Read more at straitstimes.com.
JAKARTA - The Jakarta Corruption Court found two former senior officials at the then-communications and information ministry guilty in a corruption case related to procurements in the temporary national data centre (PDNS) project.
Former director-general of informatics applications Semuel Abrijani Pangerapan was sentenced to six years in prison, while former informatics application services director Bambang Dwi Anggono got nine years of imprisonment, as reported by Kompas.id.
Aside from the prison terms, the court also fined Semuel and Bambang Rp 500 million (S$37,655) each, or an additional 140 days in jail.
The bench also ordered Semuel and Bambang to pay Rp 6.5 billion and Rp 1.5 billion in restitution, respectively.
The verdict, read out by a panel of judges presided by Judge Lucy Ermawati on March 10, was lighter than the prosecutor’s demand of seven years for Bambang and 10 years for Semuel.
Other defendants in this case were former communications and information ministry employee Nova Zanda, who acted as a procurement officer in the project, former tech company PT Aplikanusa Lintasarta general manager Alfie Asman and former PT Docotel Tekonologi account manager Pini Panggar Agusti.
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