10 officials reported to police for graft

10 officials reported to police for graft

JAYAPURA, Papua: Jayawijaya Regent David Augustin Hubi has
reported 10 members of his staff to police for their alleged
involvement in a graft case. The 10 were suspected of having
embezzled state funds earmarked for paying expenses to teachers
in the regency.

The alleged graft came to light after hundreds of teachers
complained last month that they had not received their expenses
for the past two years. To press home their demands for the
money, they staged a strike last month.

The 10 civil servants involved are mostly employed by the
regental education office. "They will be questioned soon," Yogi,
a senior official in the regental administration, quoted the
regent as saying. The regent has promised that his administration
will pay the teachers' expenses on March 25. -- Antara