Ex-Indonesia House deputy speaker Azis gets 3.5 years jail for bribery

Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) investigators bring in House of Representatives deputy speaker Azis Syamsuddin from the Golkar Party for questioning at KPK headquarters in this file photo from Sept 24, 2021. - Antara

JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/Asia News Network): The Jakarta Corruption Court sentenced on Thursday (Feb 17) senior Golkar Party politician and former House of Representatives deputy speaker Azis Syamsuddin to three-and-a-half-years in prison for bribing a lawyer and a then-investigator to evade an investigation into a graft case in Central Lampung.

The panel of judges found him guilty of paying Rp 3.09 billion (US$215,515) and $36,000 in bribes in 2020 and 2021 to then-investigator Stepanus Robin Pattuju, a police officer who at the time was seconded to the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), and lawyer Maskur Husain.