Envelopes of Cash Show Indonesia Graft Rivaling Suharto Era
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Indonesian anticorruption officers watched Wafid Muharam for five hours before raiding his office to seize envelopes stuffed with $151,550, sparking a scandal that’s roiling President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s party.
“The envelopes contained rupiah, U.S. dollars, Australian dollars and euros,” said Johan Budi, a spokesman for the Corruption Eradication Commission, or KPK, in Jakarta. “We caught the official, a secretary in the youth and sport ministry, red-handed” in the April operation, he said.