Fraud defendants face imprisonment and fines<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): A prosecutor demanded the Central Jakarta
\nDistrict Court to sentence two men to six years' and three years'
\nimprisonment respectively for forging transfer documents worth Rp
\n7 billion (U$2.9 million).<\/p>\n
Defendants Nasran Amar and Ayub Sutarya were both former
\nemployees of Bank Indonesia (the central bank) who were accused
\nof violating Article 34 of the 1971 Corruption Law.<\/p>\n
Prosecutor Petrus Sambara demanded that Nasran receive six
\nyears' imprisonment and pay a Rp 10 million fine, or three
\nmonths' imprisonment and compensate Bank Indonesia Rp 500
\nmillion.<\/p>\n
The prosecutor demanded that Ayub receive three years'
\nimprisonment and pay a Rp 2.5 million fine, or one month of
\nimprisonment and compensate Bank Indonesia Rp 130 million.<\/p>\n
In February, Nasran, Ayub and the head of the Bank's cashier
\nsection Naman Kawi, as well as two businessmen, were brought to
\ncourt for forging transfer documents.<\/p>\n
In their indictments in three parallel court sessions, state
\nprosecutors said Naman forged the transfer in July 1996 to take
\nadvantage of a weakness in the bank's account system.<\/p>\n
One of the defendants had said the practice of exchanging
\ncomputer passwords, which Naman had done in making the transfer,
\nwas common.<\/p>\n
In an earlier hearing, a witness, the head of the treasury
\ndivision, had also revealed that an employee in the
\nadministrative section would often sign a transfer without
\nrechecking requirements, only because another employee in the
\ncashier section had signed the necessary documents.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors also told the court that defendant Nasran was
\nasked by Naman, his colleague, to find someone with an account at
\nthe bank who could be used as a recipient of the transferred
\nmoney.<\/p>\n
Prosecutor Petrus said Nasran deserved the sentence he
\ndemanded because of the loss to the central bank.<\/p>\n
\"Nasran...was the one who provided a bank account to transfer
\nthe money into from the central bank,\" Petrus said.<\/p>\n
Ayub, then a staff member of the administration section, had
\ngiven his password to Naman, which made the transfer possible.<\/p>\n
But Petrus said he demanded a lighter sentence for Ayub
\nbecause the employee had shown remorse and was the sole
\nbreadwinner of his family of seven children.<\/p>\n
Defendants Naman, businessman Andi Muis and businessman Roy
\nIndra Karnadi were scheduled to hear prosecutors' demands of
\ntheir sentences today at Central Jakarta District Court. (12)<\/p>",
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