Prosecutors demand supplier serve 4 years

Irawaty Wardany ,  The Jakarta Post ,  Jakarta   |  Fri, 07/03/2009 2:55 PM  |  National

Prosecutors are seeking four years' imprisonment for a former supplier to the Manpower and Transmigration Ministry, Mulyono Subroto, accused of illegally enriching himself, other people or a corporation causing Rp 4.33 billion (US$257,478) in state loses.

"We demand the Corruption Court judges declare the defendant legally and convincingly guilty of corruption, sentence him to four years' imprisonment, and fine him Rp 200 million," prosecutor Muhibuddin said reading the prosecutor's demands at the court on Thursday.

Under the demands, Mulyono would serve an additional three months' imprisonment should he fail to pay the fine.

Mulyono is a director of PT Mulindo Agung Trikarsa that was involved in the Ministry's training procurement projects for 12 regional management units, education institution courses and Islamic boarding schools in 2004, with a total budget of Rp 4.98 billion.

"The appointment of his company was conducted without tender because of his close relationship to the former secretary of the ministry's manpower development and placement directorate, Bachrun Effendi," Muhibuddin said.

Following the appointment, Mulyono was accused of forming an agreement with the project chief, Taswin Zein, to fabricate documents for the procurement.

The documents claimed that his company had procured the equipment in December 2004 when in fact the goods only materialized in March 2005.

"An auditor, Arman Sahri Harahap, also testified that he had found costs were inflated by Rp 1.68 billion in the projects," Muhibuddin said.

Mulyono's company was also appointed directly to supply training equipment for vocational training centers in Palembang (South Sumatra) and Pekanbaru (Riau), with a total budget of Rp 8.48 billion.

The project cost had also allegedly been inflated by Rp 2.64 billion.

"The defendant's violation resulted in Rp 4.33 billion in state loses, and he illegally enriched his company with Rp 2.62 billion and other people, with Rp 1.70 billion distributed to Taswin Zein, Bachrun Effendi and other ministry officials," said Muhibuddin.

A bribe was also allegedly given to an auditor from the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK), Bagindo Quirinno, who is now standing trial.

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