Forestry officials graft suspects<\/p>\n
Puji Santoso, The Jakarta Post, Pekanbaru<\/p>\n
The Prosecutor's Office has named the head of the Kampar Forestry
\nand Plantations Office (Kadishutbun), Kamril Nur, as a suspect in
\nthe embezzlement of Rp 3.8 billion (US$422,000) allocated for the
\ndevelopment of an oil palm plantation in Kampar regency.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors have also named the manager of the project,
\nRepanis, as a suspect.<\/p>\n
\"They were charged as suspects after being questioned by
\nprosecutors for a second time, and will be detained soon,\" Enita
\nMenhar, a Riau Prosecutor's Office spokesman, said on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The two would be detained on the grounds that they had not
\nbeen cooperative during the investigation, said Enita.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Edward, an assistant with the Riau Prosecutor's
\nOffice Special Crimes Unit, confirmed that the two suspects would
\nbe detained. \"Both suspects will be held to expedite the
\ninvestigation process, and we are preparing detention orders for
\nboth of them,\" said Edward.<\/p>\n
The corruption case came to light after the Riau prosecutors
\nunearthed irregularities in the agribusiness project in Kampar
\nregency in 2003.<\/p>\n
Based on the project blueprint, the government allocated Rp
\n3.8 billion for the planting of oil palms on 700 hectares of
\nland. An additional sum of Rp 1.7 billion was provided for the
\nmaintenance of the oil palms.<\/p>\n
The suspects claimed that the project had been completed
\nrecently, but when checked by the Kampar audit agency and the
\nprosecutors, the palm oil project was found to only extend to 150
\nhectares of land rather than 700 hectares originally planned.<\/p>",
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