A top Indonesian judge, arrested this week for allegedly accepting bribe worth more than $300,000, could face drugs charges after investigators found illicit substances in his office, an official said.
The detention of constitutional court chief judge Akil Mochtar had on Wednesday followed the arrest of the country’s top energy regulator in August and a string of corruption cases linked to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s ruling Democratic Party.
“During the search of Akil’s office, investigators found items suspected to be illegal drugs,” Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) spokesman Johan Budi had said at a press conference on Friday.
An unnamed source at the KPK said investigators found marijuana, but the amount was unclear.
The Jakarta Globe newspaper had said yesterday that the judge slapped a local journalist in the face after he was asked whether he would be ready to have his fingers cut off over his bribery case.
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