An anti-graft tribunal in Central Jakarta on Monday sentenced a senior member of the General Elections Commission (KPU) to 31 months in jail for a graft case that also involved other top KPU officials.

The court pronounced Mulyana Wira Kusumah guilty of bribing a state auditor with a fund of 300 million rupiah (around 30,000 US dollars) in an attempt to influence audit results.

He was also fined 50 million rupiah (5,000 dollars) for the bribery.

Mulyana is the first suspect to be sent behind bars in the KPU's high-profile graft case, which also involved KPU head Nazaruddin Syamsudin and three other senior staff.

The other KPU officials are on trial for taking kickbacks amounting to more than 1 million US dollars from companies that supplied electoral materials to the commission.

Mulyana, who has been in custody since April, asked one week to decide whether or not he would accept the verdict.

In the previous hearing, the prosecutors recommended a 36-month imprisonment for Mulyana.

Source: Xinhua