By Jet Damazo-Santos ( October 16, 2018, 06:00 GMT | Insight) -- Lippo Group consultants and employees have been named as suspects in a new bribery scandal involving the Indonesian property group’s Meikarta development in Bekasi, West Java Province, a 278 trillion rupiah ($18 billion) project that has been dogged by permit problems. The Corruption Eradication Commission, or KPK, arrested Lippo executive Billy Sindoro yesterday for his alleged involvement in the payment of bribes to Bekasi government officials to secure permits for the troubled development.Lippo Group consultants and employees have been named as suspects in a new bribery scandal involving the Indonesian property group’s Meikarta development in Bekasi, West Java Province, a 278 trillion rupiah ($18 billion) project that has been dogged by permit problems....
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