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The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) said on Sunday that it was hopeful that the Jakarta Corruption Court on Monday would sentence graft and money laundering defendant former Constitutional Court Akil Mochtar to life in prison as demanded by its prosecutors.
KPK deputy chairman Bambang Widjojanto said that he was confident that the evidence presented would convince the panel of judges that Akil deserved life in prison, given that he was head of the country’s highest judiciary institution.
“The KPK hopes that the court’s ruling will honor the country’s corruption eradication efforts,” Bambang told The Jakarta Post on Sunday.
With regard to Akil’s accusation in his defense plea that the sentence demand was politically motivated, Bambang said he did not under estimate the panel of judges’ ability to sort out what arguments were related to the case and which were not.
Akil, in his defense statement, lambasted the KPK’s refusal to acknowledge his past good deeds.
“Let the panel of judges examine the defense plea. KPK prosecutors, based on Akil’s almost four-month trial, found no mitigating factors in his offenses,” Bambang said. - See more at: http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2014/06/30/kpk-optimistic-court-will-sentence-akil-life-prison.html#sthash.PUH90ryA.dpuf
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