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Anti Graft Agency (KPK) named former CEO of national airline Garuda Indonesia Emirsyah Satar a suspect in a bribery case involving the purchase of Airbus A330 aircraft engines from Rolls Royce.
Emirsyah is accused of taking bribes from Soetikno Soedarjo, who is also named suspect in the dossier. Soetikno is the beneficial owner of Connaught International and the founder of MRA Media Group.
Suspect E.S.A. allegedly received bribe of 1.2 million Euro and USD 180,000 from suspect S.S., explained KPK Deputy Laode Muhamad Syarif in a press conference on Thursday.
Emirsyah is also accused of taking gifts worth USD 2 million.
KPK had searched four locations in South Jakarta on Wednesday before naming Emir and Soetikno suspects.
The agency worked together with authorities in Singapore and the United Kingdom to gather evidence as detectives believe the bribe money is kept in Singapore. Rolls-Royce, which made the aircraft engines, is a UK-based company.
Emirsyah resigned from Garuda in 2015 and is currently the chairman of e-commerce company Mataharimall.com.
Garuda Indonesia said that the case has nothing to do with Garuda as a company.
As a public company, Garuda Indonesia has a mechanism to conduct its business, from Good Corporate Governance system to information transparency, the company spokesman Benny Butarbutar said in a statement today.
"Our management gives full authority to the KPK to solve this case and we will cooperate with investigators.
(brl/red)
