DHAKA: Indonesian prosecutors sought a life sentence Monday for a former top judge accused of accepting bribes in more than a dozen cases involving regional election disputes, and of money-laundering.

Former constitutional court chief judge Akil Mochtar was arrested last year by officials of the powerful anti-graft body while a businessman and lawmaker were about to hand him around three billion rupiah, prosecutors said.

‘The defendant has been legally and convincingly proven guilty of accepting presents (bribes)... to intervene in constitutional court rulings,’ prosecutor Pulung Rinandoro told an anti-corruption court in Jakarta, reports The Straits Times.

He called for a life sentence, a fine of 10 billion rupiah and the revocation of Mochtar’s political rights.

BDST: 2002 HRS, JUNE 16, 2014