Non-Active Banten Governor Gets Four Years Imprisonment

Jakarta (Antara) - Banten province's non-active governor Ratu Atut Chosiyah was sentenced to four years imprisonment for bribing former Constitutional Court's chief Akil Mochtar in a regional election dispute case. "The defendant is sentenced to four years in jail and Rp200 million of fine or another five months of jail sentence if the defendant fails to pay the fine," Chief of the judge panel Matheus Samiadji stated during the trial at the anti-corruption court in Central Jakarta on Monday. The verdict is lesser than the prosecutor's demand of 10 years in jail and a fine of Rp250 million plus the revocation of Atut's rights to vote and be voted as a public official. "Despite denying her involvement in the case, Atut is believed to have ordered her lawyer Susi Tur Andayani to bribe Akil Mochtar Rp1 billion," a member of the judge panel Sutio Sumadi affirmed. (*)