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A court hearing revealed on Thursday that Youth and Sports Minister Imam Nahrawi had accepted bribes, making him the second Cabinet member implicated in a graft case just a month before the country’s presidential and legislative elections.

A team of prosecutors named Imam on a list of alleged recipients of bribes from the National Sports Committee (KONI) to the ministry during the trial of committee secretary-general Ending Fuad Hamidy at the Jakarta Corruption Court.

The list included initials of ministry and committee officials who allegedly received kickbacks totaling Rp 3.4 billion (US$240,831) to pass a state grant to the committee, as reported by Antara.

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