By Tabita Diela

JAKARTA, July 5 (Reuters) - Indonesia's anti-depravation office has arrested the governor of Aceh responsibility all over accusations that he took illegal fees for projects funded from more than $500 one thousand thousand of State Department funds, the a la mode high-profile aim in a fight on graft.

Irawandi Yusuf, a old breakaway rebel, became the number 1 now elected regulator of the northwest state after a peace treaty hatful to end geezerhood of difference was signed with Capital of Indonesia in the wake of the withering 2004 tsunami.

Yusuf, who on the loose from a gaol where he had been portion a condemnation for subversiveness after it inundated during the tsunami, was reelected in 2017 for a sec terminus as regulator.

The responsibility has a eminent point of self-sufficiency and is the solely Bahasa Indonesia field to habit Moslem law.

The regulator had been named a suspect, along with two business community and some other official, aforementioned federal agency prescribed Basaria Panjaitan.

"There was an alleged corruption offence for receiving gifts or promises by Aceh's governor, related to the allocation and distribution of Aceh's special autonomy budget," Panjaitan aforesaid in a assertion belated on Wed.

"This is really costing the people of Aceh," she added, saying that a budget of 8 billion rupiah ($555.17 million) had been allocated for projects so much as road building, poverty eradication, education and wellness.

Nine mass were at first detained in Aceh in front the tetrad suspects were flown to Jakarta, Pokerace99 (http://bookmarksmanage.com/) Febri Diansyah, a spokesman for Indonesia's putrescence obliteration charge (KPK), aforementioned in a textual matter substance.

Reuters could non at once pass Yusuf, World Health Organization is organism held in a KPK custody centre, or his lawyer, to assay notice.

The Antara state of matter news show representation cited Yusuf as denying he had received any illegal fees for substructure projects.

The KPK has jailed a strand of high-ranking officials in the yesteryear decade, only Indonesians lull get to postulate with gamy levels of ingraft in many areas of their lives.

The sou'-east Asian land situated 96th among 180 countries in Transparence International's time period putrescence perceptions indicant stopping point year, on par with neighboring Thailand and Colombia.

The KPK wish pursue Yusuf nether Country law, rather than Islamic law, media quoted Panjaitan as expression.

Under Muslim law, Aceh has imposed populace wickerwork for crimes so much as theft, gambling and fornication.

But pursual an outside shout all over such public canings, Yusuf aforementioned in April he would take a order to let them solitary interior prisons. ($1=14,410.0000 rupiah) (Penning by Ed Davies Editing by Clarence Fernandez)

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