Commission spokesman Johan Budi said the assets were confiscated from former Constitutional Court Chief Justice Akil Mochtar. He said Mochtar will have to prove they were not acquired through corruption at his trial.
Mochtar's arrest last October on charges of accepting bribes to fix the results of two local elections shocked the country because the Constitutional Court is one of the two highest courts, alongside the Supreme Court.
Investigators earlier said they recovered cash stashed in the walls of a karaoke room in Mochtar's official residence. Mochtar's lawyer Tamsil Sjoekoer said much of the money and property was acquired before his client became a judge in 2008, when he was a parliamentarian. He also said the money hidden in the karoke room was profits from a fish farm, not corruption.
Indonesia is the world's third-largest democracy after India and the United States, but corruption has tarnished the government and deterred investment.
In recent months, the former head of the police's traffic division, the head of an Islamic political party and a member of Yudhoyono's party have been convicted of corruption.
Despite these arrests, Yudhoyono has been accused of ignoring suspected corruption in his inner circle and allowing graft to thrive.
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