Jakarta – The Jakarta Anti-Corruption Court on Thursday granted a plea lodged by high-profile lawyer turned graft suspect Otto Cornelis Kaligis to receive additional visits from family and colleagues.

"Considering the great number of visitors including legal advisers, family and colleagues, the court has granted an additional two hours of visiting time every Saturday," Judge Sumpeno said at a hearing on Thursday, noting that the visiting hours would be between 10 a.m. and noon.

In his plea, Kaligis listed a total of 257 people who he said wished to visit him. He also referred the court to Indonesia's Criminal Code Procedures (Kuhap), which does not specify visiting days for detainees on remand.

Kaligis was arrested by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) on July 14 in connection with a bribe allegedly paid by one of his subordinates to three judges at the Medan State Administrative Court (PTUN) in North Sumatra in a case being heard there. The KPK has also arrested the North Sumatra governor, Gatot Pujo Nugroho, in the same case.

The KPK alleges that Kaligis, who runs one of the largest law firms in Indonesia, of bribing the PTUN's Judge Tripeni in exchange for issuing a ruling in favor of one of the lawyer's clients, the provincial administration's treasurer, Ahmad Fuad Lubis. Ahmad stands accused of misappropriating social aid funds from the provincial budget in 2012 and 2013.

Gatot and his wife, though detained, have not yet been indicted in the case.

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