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ROYAN'S BRIBERY CASE INVOLVED MORE BIZMEN, LEGISLATORS, TRANSPORTATION MINISTRY OFFICIALS : LAWYER
Jakarta, July 2 (ANTARA) - The bribes allegedly taken by legislator Bulyan Royan from businessman Dedi Suwarsono were only part of a much larger bribery scheme involving more lawmakers, more businessmen and transportation ministry officials, a lawyer representing Suwarsono, Komaruddin Simanjuntak, said here Wednesday.
Royan was arrested by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) last Monday for allegedly receiving a 'fee' of US$66,000 and 5,500 Euros from Suwarsono, whose company, PT Bina Mina Karya Perkasa (BMKP) had won a tender for the supply of 20 patrol boats for the directorate general of sea communications at the transportation ministry.
According to Komaruddin, his client's company was only one of five companies that had won the tender and, therefore, the 'fees' might be bigger that what had been known.
He said that according to the tender cooperation, each winning company was obliged to pay a 'fee' of seven or eight percent from the value of the project to a number of House of Representatives (DPR) members and transportation ministry officials.
It meant that the DPR members and transportation ministry officials might have respectively received Rp1.68 billion from each company which had won the tender, Simanjuntak explained.
"It's a tradition there, they always ask for fees," he said.
He also said t the money Royan had received was meant for other legislators as well, and not only for himself.
"For the time being, I cannot mention their names," he said, adding that, however, the names had been given to the KPK.
Earlier, Suwarsono had given money three times to certain MPs as part of the total 1.68 billion 'fee'.
The company had also given money to several officials at the transportation ministry, including US1,500, and Rp10 to 21 million, he said, refusing to name the officials.
Suwaesono was arrested 14 hours after Bulyan Royan who was nabbed on Monday (June 30) at 17.00 in a shopping center in Senayan, south Jakarta, after he had collected the bribe money deposited at a money changer.
The businessman was on Tuesday at 23.00 seen leaving the KPK building in a prison car which was to take him to the detention center of the National Police Headquarters.
Royan was arrested by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) last Monday for allegedly receiving a 'fee' of US$66,000 and 5,500 Euros from Suwarsono, whose company, PT Bina Mina Karya Perkasa (BMKP) had won a tender for the supply of 20 patrol boats for the directorate general of sea communications at the transportation ministry.
According to Komaruddin, his client's company was only one of five companies that had won the tender and, therefore, the 'fees' might be bigger that what had been known.
He said that according to the tender cooperation, each winning company was obliged to pay a 'fee' of seven or eight percent from the value of the project to a number of House of Representatives (DPR) members and transportation ministry officials.
It meant that the DPR members and transportation ministry officials might have respectively received Rp1.68 billion from each company which had won the tender, Simanjuntak explained.
"It's a tradition there, they always ask for fees," he said.
He also said t the money Royan had received was meant for other legislators as well, and not only for himself.
"For the time being, I cannot mention their names," he said, adding that, however, the names had been given to the KPK.
Earlier, Suwarsono had given money three times to certain MPs as part of the total 1.68 billion 'fee'.
The company had also given money to several officials at the transportation ministry, including US1,500, and Rp10 to 21 million, he said, refusing to name the officials.
Suwaesono was arrested 14 hours after Bulyan Royan who was nabbed on Monday (June 30) at 17.00 in a shopping center in Senayan, south Jakarta, after he had collected the bribe money deposited at a money changer.
The businessman was on Tuesday at 23.00 seen leaving the KPK building in a prison car which was to take him to the detention center of the National Police Headquarters.
