Bank employee faces jail term<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): Public prosecutor has demanded that the South
\nJakarta District Court jail a staff member of the Bank Rakyat
\nIndonesia (BRI) of Jl. Gatot Subroto branch office to five years
\nfor embezzling Rp 1.7 billion (more than US$770,000).<\/p>\n
Prosecutor T.S. Limbong also asked the court on Wednesday to
\nfine Kamal Pahsyah Rp 20 million for the offense.<\/p>\n
The prosecutor also said he claimed the right to confiscate
\nall material evidence, including three trucks, two fishing ships,
\na radio communication device, a house at the Taman Galaxy housing
\ncomplex, a 375 square meter plot in Narogong, Bekasi, a type-
\nwriter and Rp 147.9 million in cash.<\/p>\n
"The defendant is found guilty of violating article 1 and 28
\nof the Anti-Corruption Law number 3, issued in 1971 and article
\n64 of the Criminal Code," he told the court presided over by
\nJudge Sudadi.<\/p>\n
Violators of the article can be sentenced to twenty years
\nimprisonment and fined Rp 30 million.<\/p>\n
The fact that the defendant has caused financial losses for
\nthe state and thus hampered national development should be taken
\ninto consideration, the prosecutor said.<\/p>\n
According to the prosecution, Kamal, an operation manager,
\nembezzled the money between October 1994 and January 1995 by
\nmanipulating operational costs, including telephone, telex and
\nelectricity bills as well as maintenance costs.<\/p>\n
On Oct. 19 last year, the defendant manipulated the telex bill
\nof Rp 6.4 million into one of Rp 86.4 million, Limbong said.<\/p>\n
On Nov.5 he changed the amount of maintenance costs from Rp 2
\nmillion to Rp 92 million, the prosecutor said.<\/p>\n
Limbong said that in December last year Kamal manipulated
\noperational costs and maintenance costs from Rp 25 million to Rp
\n625 million; and in January of this year from Rp 13 million to Rp
\n903 million.<\/p>\n
Kamal had earlier admitted in court to having given Rp 100
\nmillion of the embezzled money to a prostitute.<\/p>\n
The trial was adjourned until Dec.22 to hear Kamal's defense.
\n(29)<\/p>",
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