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Indonesian tech consultant gets four years in prison in Chromebook graft case
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The court also ordered Ibrahim Arief to pay a 500 million rupiah (S$36,000) fine, or serve an extra 120 days’ imprisonment in default.
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JAKARTA – The Jakarta Corruption Court has sentenced technology consultant Ibrahim Arief to four years in prison in a graft case pertaining to the procurement of Google Chromebook laptops for schoolchildren at Indonesia’s then Education, Culture, Research and Technology Ministry.
At the hearing on May 12, the panel of judges acquitted Ibrahim of the primary charges brought by prosecutors that the defendant allegedly received kickbacks or financial benefits from the multitrillion-rupiah Chromebook laptop procurement between 2020 and 2022, when the ministry was led by then Education Minister Nadiem Makarim.
