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Officials charged with stealing public funds, bribing auditors
The Corruption Court charged an ex-state company official with embezzlement, costing the state loss of Rp 42
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he Corruption Court charged an ex-state company official with embezzlement, costing the state loss of Rp 42.32 billion (US$ 4.73 million) and a Bekasi municipal official with paying Rp 400 million to bribe the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK).
Prosecutors charged the former general manager of the Lampung branch of state electricity monopoly PT PLN, Budi Harsono, for alleged involvement in a graft case linked to the outsourcing of a consumer information system during his tenure from 2004 to 2008.
Bekasi municipal secretary Tjandra Utama Effendi was charged for allegedly bribing BPK auditors to get a clean report.
Prosecutor Pulung Rinandoro said Budi had breached the law for directly appointing a company, PT Altelindo Karyamandiri, rather than running a tender for the above project to run the system.
Prosecutors said Budi received a Rp 3.41 billion bribe from Altelindo commissioner Georgie Kumaat.
In a separate trial, prosecutors charged Tjandra and two other Bekasi officials, Herry Lukmantohari and Herry Suparjan, with offering Rp 400 million in bribes to BPK auditors Suharto and Enang Hernawan.
”The bribe was intended to influence the officials to unconditionally approve a 2009 financial report,” prosecutor Risma Ansyari said.
Prosecutors said that on May 21, Tjandra handed Rp 200 million to Suharto and Enang through Suparjan. Suharto and Enang each took Rp 50 million and gave the rest to the head of the agency, Gunawan Sidauruk.
In June, Tjandra borrowed money from the Bekasi branch of the National Sports Committee to pay a second installment and asked Lukmantohari and Suparjan to deliver another Rp 200 million to Suharto at his house in Bandung, Risma said. (lnd)
