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1st LD: Indonesian deputy chairman of anti-corruption watchdog arrested

Xinhua, January 23, 2015 Adjust font size:

Indonesian police has arrested Bambang Widjojanto, deputy chairman of corruption eradication commission (KPK), who was declared to involve in a case of provincial election in 2010, according to police spokesman Ronny Sompie on Friday. The police's acts were made days after the KPK, who has been at the front line in combating seismic corruption in the country, declared Budi Gunawan, the only police chief candidate nominated by President Joko Widodo, a suspect on a corruption case.

Widjojanto was arrested at about 7:30 a.m. Jakarta time in Depok, an outskirt city of Jakarta, when he was accompanying his children to school, the police spokesman confirmed.

Ronny said that the arrest was aimed at questioning the deputy chairman over his case and there was no detention. Endi