JAKARTA – Former Indonesian Social Affairs minister Juliari Batubara has been sentenced to 12 years in prison over a multi-million dollar coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) graft scandal, the Jakarta Corruption Court ruled on Monday.
A judge said the former politician was found “convincingly guilty of corruption” after receiving 32.4 billion rupiah ($2.25 million) in kickbacks in relation to the procurement of goods intended for COVID-19 social assistance packages.
The politician was also fined 500 million rupiah and ordered to pay back 14.5 billion rupiah in embezzled funds used for personal expenses.
Juliari would also be banned from public office for four years after serving his prison term.(Reuters)
