Jakarta (ANTARA News) - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has conducted search operation at a suspects offices, in the bribery case involving PT Garuda Indonesia in the purchase of aircraft and engines from Airbus and Rolls-Royce.

"The (KPK) team today has conducted a search operation again, at the offices of a suspect Soetikno Soedarjo in PT Mugi Rekso Abadi and PT Dimitri Utama Pribadi," a spokesman of KPK Febri Diansyah said here, Wednesday.

The investigators suspected some evidence at the two locations thus they would need to search further to find more data and documents, Febri said.

Previously on January 18-19, the anti-graft body has conducted search operation at the same locations.

"At its first operation, investigators seized some documents linked to companys data, allegedly owned by the suspect in Singapore, data on assets ownership, banking, and electronic devices," he added.

According to Febri, the commission is still conducting data processing in coordination with Singapore.

"Because there is an indication of international corruption case, we are coordinating with local authority regarding to the suspects wealth or assets in Singapore," he continued.

KPK has named former Garuda CEO Emirsyah Satar as suspect in the bribery case.

He has allegedly received 1.2 million euros and US$180,000 or a total Rp20 billion and various goods worth US$2 million in Singapore and Indonesia, as bribery from UK-based manufacturer Rolls Royce in the purchase of 50 Airbus SAS engines for PT Garuda Indonesia Tbk during 2005-2014.

The bribes were delivered by a middleman Soetikno Soedarjo as beneficial owner of Connaught International Pte. Ltd located in Singapore.

Soetikno is the president commissioner of PT Mugi Rekso Abadi, a company group in media and lifestyle.

A British court has fined Rolls-Royce based on the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) investigation, for bribery in several countries including Malaysia, Thailand, China, Brazil, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Iraq, and Angola.

KPK has received information on the alleged bribery, from the SFO and Singapores Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB), which were conducting investigation on Rolls Royce bribery case in some countries.

The commission has frozen the suspects bank accounts and assets in other countries.

Emirsyah is charged with law on corruption eradication and could face a maximum jail sentence of 20 years and Rp200 million to Rp1 billion of fine.

While Soetikno could face a maximum jail sentence of 5 years. (*)

Editor: Heru Purwanto
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