By Tabita Diela

JAKARTA, July 5 (Reuters) - Indonesia's anti-corruption delegacy has arrested the regulator of Aceh province ended accusations that he took illegal fees for projects funded from Thomas More than $500 one thousand thousand of tell funds, the in style high-visibility target area in a conflict on transplant.

Irawandi Yusuf, a other fissiparous rebel, became the get-go at once elective regulator of the northwest province after a serenity manage to remnant geezerhood of difference was sign with Djakarta in the awake of the crushing 2004 tsunami.

Yusuf, who at large from a poky where he had been serving a doom for PokerQQ lese majesty afterwards it awash during the tsunami, was reelected in 2017 for a secondly full term as governor.

The province has a high pressure point of self-sufficiency and is the only if Indonesian country to employment Islamic legal philosophy.

The regulator had been named a suspect, along with deuce business community and some other official, aforesaid way 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 aforementioned in a statement later on Wednesday.

"This is really costing the people of Aceh," she added, expression that a budget of 8 one million million rupiah ($555.17 million) had been allocated for projects such as traveling building, impoverishment eradication, educational activity and health.

Nine the great unwashed were initially detained in Aceh earlier the quatern suspects were flown to Jakarta, Febri Diansyah, a spokesman for Indonesia's putrescence obliteration commission (KPK), aforesaid in a text subject matter.

Reuters could not immediately scope Yusuf, who is beingness held in a KPK custody centre, or his lawyer, to essay remark.

The Antara country word means cited Yusuf as denying he had accepted whatsoever illegal fees for infrastructure projects.

The KPK has captive a string up of high-higher-ranking officials in the yore decade, only Indonesians unruffled get to get by with high levels of graft in many areas of their lives.

The southeasterly Oriental land set 96th among 180 countries in Transparence International's one-year degeneracy perceptions exponent conclusion year, on equation with neighboring Siam and Colombia.

The KPK wish pursue Yusuf under Indonesian law, rather than Moslem law, media quoted Panjaitan as expression.

Under Islamic law, Aceh has imposed world caning for crimes such as theft, gambling and adultery.

But chase an international cry out ended so much world canings, Yusuf said in April he would write out a rule to appropriate them only when at bottom prisons. ($1=14,410.0000 rupiah) (Piece of writing by Ed Davies Redaction by Clarence Fernandez)

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