Indonesia’s Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) on Tuesday named a former managing director of the trading arm of state energy company PT Pertamina a suspect in a graft case linked to oil trading with a Singapore-based company. After nearly five years investigating what authorities have described as an “oil and gas mafia”, the agency charged Bambang Irianto, former managing director of Pertamina Energy Service Pte. Ltd. (PES), with receiving bribes from Singapore-based Kernel Oil Pte Ltd to secure oil trading deals. Irianto had received at least $2.9 million between 2010 and 2013 “for the help he provided to ... (full story)