A deputy chairwoman of the independent Corruption Eradication Commission, Basaria Panjaitan, announced today that Constitutional Court Judge Patrialis Akbar and 10 other people were caught "red-handed" in an anti-graft sting.
She said Akbar was suspected of receiving USD 161,000 from a meat importer in connection with the court's judicial review of a revision to a law on animal husbandry. The businessman ran 20 companies dealing with meat imports.
Four of those arrested including Akbar were formally named as suspects while the seven others were still being questioned as witnesses, Panjaitan said.
Akil Mochtar was arrested in October 2013 when he was chairman of the court's nine-member panel of judges and was later sentenced to life imprisonment.