Police detain two for embezzling SEA Games funds<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): The National Police has detained two suspects
\nfor their alleged involvement in embezzling last year's 19th SEA
\nGames sticker funds collected from the public over 18 months.<\/p>\n
National Police deputy spokesman Col. Bambang Haryoko told
\na media conference yesterday that officers are currently looking
\nfor three other suspects, identified only as YF, IR and DH. The
\nthree are on the police's most wanted list, he said.<\/p>\n
Bambang said the two detained suspects, identified as Hartono
\nSantoso and Tosi Hertiyono, were arrested last month.<\/p>\n
They were employees of PT Angkasa Rona Graha, a private
\ncompany appointed to be one of the partners of a consortium in
\ncharge of raising funds for the SEA Games.<\/p>\n
\"The five allegedly embezzled the money obtained from SEA
\nGames sticker sales at various government and private
\ninstitutions.<\/p>\n
\"The suspects also counterfeited several documents ordering
\nsticker funds collection, as if the letters were from the SEA
\nGames consortium, even though in reality the money was sent to
\ntheir own bank accounts,\" Bambang explained.<\/p>\n
It is not yet known how much the five suspects allegedly
\nembezzled.<\/p>\n
Hartono and YF, for example, faked letters and documents
\nordering the transfer of Rp 594 million collected by the Jakarta
\nRevenue Agency to their own accounts, he said.<\/p>\n
Tosi appropriated Rp 417.6 million from PT Excelkomindo
\nPratama, another private institution assigned to sell the
\nstickers, through an account under his name.<\/p>\n
The two other suspects, IR and DH, used the same strategy and
\ntook Rp 150 million in sticker funds from the West Kalimantan
\nRevenue Agency.<\/p>\n
The swindling is believed to have occurred between September
\nand December last year, Bambang said.<\/p>\n
\"We have conducted a thorough investigation into the matter
\nsince May 1, when we officially received the report. Hopefully we
\ncan capture the three other suspects and solve this case,\"
\nBambang added.<\/p>\n
The police confiscated, as evidence, copies of the Ministry of
\nSocial Affairs's decree stating the appointment of the 19th SEA
\nGames consortium and its other partners as well as several fake
\ndocuments used by the suspects to obtain the money, he said.<\/p>\n
\"The National Police detective unit will send letters to the
\nminister of finance to get more information about permits for the
\nuse of the suspects' bank accounts.<\/p>\n
\"We will also send letters to the attorney general and even
\nthe President to summon all members of 19th SEA Games consortium
\nand related parties involved in this case as witnesses,\" Bambang
\nsaid, without naming them.<\/p>\n
\"Wait for further results of our investigation.\"<\/p>\n
There are no definite figures on how much the consortium
\nraised in the sticker sales from July 1996 to December last year.<\/p>\n
The stickers, imposed on telephone, water and electricity
\nusers, airplane passengers and car owners, were sold under a
\nministerial decree issued by then minister of social services
\nEndang Kusuma Inten Soeweno.<\/p>\n
In its audited report, submitted to the then state minister of
\nyouth and sports affairs, Agung Laksono, in April, the consortium
\nsaid it suffered a Rp 64 billion deficit, down Rp 4 billion from
\nits previous reported loss.<\/p>\n
The report is being questioned by the Indonesian Consumers
\nFoundation, which has urged the House of Representatives to
\nexamine the accountability report submitted by the SEA Games
\nunderwriting consortium. The federation believed it lacked
\ntransparency.<\/p>\n
The foundation had planned to file a lawsuit against the
\nconsortium over the lack of transparency in its management of the
\npublic funds but in late April Agung Laksono decided to submit
\nthe case to National Police for further investigation. (edt)<\/p>",
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