Former Indonesian minister Limpo jailed 10 years for collecting $2.7 million bribe
An Indonesian court on Thursday sentenced the country’s former agriculture minister, Syahrul Yasin Limpo, to 10 years in jail for corruption.
Mr Limpo, a politician of the Nasdem Party, was found guilty of accepting more than 44 billion Indonesian rupiah ($2.7 million) in bribes from 2020 to 2023 while in office.
The 69-year-old will also pay a fine of 300 million Indonesian rupiahs (1$8,500) as a substitute for another four-month imprisonment should he fail to pay, the chairman of the panel of judges, Rianto Adam Pontoh, said.
Mr Pontoh said while reading the verdict that the former minister committed corruption along with his two subordinates, the ministry’s former secretary general Kasdi Subagyono and former director of Agricultural Equipment and Machinery Muhammad Hatta.
The two ex-officials, who gathered money from different departments within the ministry, were each sentenced to four years by the Jakarta Corruption Court.
(dpa/NAN)
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