Akil Mochtar (born 18 October 1960) is a convicted former- Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court of Indonesia that was indicted for his acceptance of bribery for an election dispute case, prompting

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Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who'd appointed him, to sign legislation creating a permanent ethics body to supervise the

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Career

On 3 April 2013, Akil Mochtar was elected the third chief justice. Akil was supported with seven of the nine votes cast. Akil, a former politician from the

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party, had been a justice of the

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since 2008 and has a reportedly conservative approach in legal matters. He has said that in contrast to his predecessor, Machmud MD, he "would not talk to reporters much about politics." On 2 October 2013, Mochtar was arrested by anti-corruption officials for allegedly accepting at least $250,000 in bribes, relating to a disputed election in

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. Several days later, president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono announced that Akil was temporarily suspended from his position as chief justice of the court and that new and stricter procedures for the appointment of justices to the court would be introduced. Shortly after, the independent ethics council declared that Akil had been removed from his position and that the post of chief justice was vacant. In the subsequent legal process, numerous instances of allegedly corrupt payments that Akil had received as a justice were presented by prosecutors.Court reveals Akil's bribery record'
''The Jakarta Post'', 22 February 2014.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mochtar, Akil 1960 births 21st-century Indonesian judges Indonesian Muslims Justices of the Constitutional Court of Indonesia Living people People from West Kalimantan