JakartaGlobe-Apr 27
Bogor District Head Ade Munawaroh Yasin was arrested late Tuesday by the Corruption Eradication Commission, or KPK, the same agency that ended the term of her predecessor and elder brother Rachmat Yasin also for a corruption scandal. Ade was arrested overnight along with several district officials, auditors, and businessmen, KPK spokesman Ali Fikri said in a virtual news conference on Wednesday. “The operation was conducted over bribery allegation,” Ali said. For residents in Bogor District, a different administrative area from the neighboring city of Bogor which is led by a mayor, the arrest invites a sense of deja vu. Ade’s brother was arrested by the KPK in 2014 for taking Rp 4.5 billion in bribe money from property developers in the district and was found guilty by the court and sentenced to five and a half years later that year. Rachmat, who was supposed to lead the district for another four years, was succeeded by his deputy because of his criminal conviction until younger sister Ade won the 2018 district head election and took the district government’s top post back to the family. Ade is the fourth regional government leader to be arrested by the KPK so far this year. Since the agency came into operation to tackle the country’s rampant corruption, at least 22 governors and 148 district heads or mayors have been arrested for corruption charges. Read more at: https://jakartaglobe.id/news/it-runs-in-the-family-bogor-district-head-arrested-by-anticorruption-agency
