Indonesia names former airline boss as bribery suspect

Indonesia's anti-graft commission has named a former top executive of Garuda as a suspect in a case involving bribes for the purchase of Rolls Royce aircraft engines. A deputy chairman of the Corruption Eradication Commission, Laode Syarif, said Thursday that the bribery occurred between 2005 and 2014, the period when Emirsyah Satar was Garuda's president-director. Satar is alleged to have received bribes totalling US$3.45m for procurement of Rolls-Royce engines for some 50 Airbus planes owned by Garuda. Syarif said Satar received the bribes via another suspect who has a Singapore-based company with businesses in Indonesia but who was not identified. Syarif said the bribes in the Indonesian case included goods worth about $2m discovered by the commission in Jakarta and Singapore. <br/>