Royan`s bribery case involved more bizmen, legislators, transportation ministry officials: lawyer

Royan was arrested by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) last Monday for allegedly receiving a `fee` of US$66,000 and 5,500 Euros from Suwarsono, whose company, PT Bina Mina Karya Perkasa (BMKP) had won a tender for the supply of 20 patrol boats for the directorate general of sea communications at the transportation ministry.

According to Komaruddin, his client`s company was only one of five companies that had won the tender and, therefore, the `fees` might be bigger that what had been known.

He said that according to the tender cooperation, each winning company was obliged to pay a `fee` of seven or eight percent from the value of the project to a number of House of Representatives (DPR0 members and transportation ministry officials.

It meant that the DPR members and transportation ministry officials might have respectively received Rp1.68 billion from each company which had won the tender, Simanjuntak explained.

"It`s a tradition there, they always ask for fees," he said.

He also said t the money Royan had received was meant for other legislators as well, and not only for himself.

"For the time being, I cannot mention their names," he said, adding that, however, the names had been given to the KPK.

Earlier, Suwarsono had ...