Investigators search rooms in parliament building over bribery case

A team of Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) investigators on Thursday conducted a search in two locations in the House of Representatives (DPR) complex in south Jakarta in connection with the suspected involvement of legislator Bulyan Royan in a bribery case.

In their effort to collect more evidence against Royan, the KPK search team targeted the quarters of the secretariat of the House`s Commission V of which he was a member, and the legislator`s private office.

Royan, a representative of the Star Reform Party (PBR), was arrested last June 30 after he had collected an amount of money from a businessman who had won a tender for the supply of patrol boats for the Transportation Ministry.

Ten KPK agents carried out the search in the House Commission V`s secretariat in the Nusantara II building in the House compound , and five others in Royan`s private offfice on the 22nd floor of the Nusantara I building.

The anti-graft agency ...