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Podomoro Land executives detained for bribing Jakarta legislator to approve seafront property projects

( April 1, 2016, 18:40 GMT | Insight) -- The president director of property developer Agung Podomoro Land, Ariesman Widjaja, turned himself in to Indonesia's Corruption Eradication Commission late on Friday, after the agency named him as a suspect in a bribery case involving Jakarta legislator Muhammad Sanusi, Berita Satu reports.The president director of property developer Agung Podomoro Land, Ariesman Widjaja, turned himself in to Indonesia's Corruption Eradication Commission, or KPK, late on Friday after the agency named him as a suspect in a bribery case involving Jakarta legislator Muhammad Sanusi, Berita Satu reports. He faces a charge of bribing Sanusi in an attempt to gain the lawmaker’s favor as the city council deliberates zoning and reclamation regulations on its seafronts, where Podomoro Land is building property projects. The KPK arrested Sanusi in a sting operation at a mall in South Jakarta on Thursday night after he accepted 1.14 billion rupiah ($86,600) from Podomoro employee Triandara Prihantoro. The KPK officials detained Prihantoro separately at his office in West Jakarta, but missed Widjaja, who had been hiding....

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