'Announce parking probe results': City Council

'Announce parking probe results': City Council

JAKARTA (JP): The municipal administration has yet to announce the results of the investigation into the embezzlement of parking fees.

"The City Council insists that the administration reveal the results of the investigation into alleged parking fee embezzlement to the city council and the public because the administration has suffered losses of billions of rupiah in parking revenue," H. Helmy AR. Said, the chairman of City Council's Commission C told reporters yesterday.

Last week Governor Surjadi Soedirdja ordered the city's officials in charge of public affairs to investigate allegations of embezzlement at the city's parking authority, BP Parkir. Several BP Parkir officials are believed to have embezzled a hefty amount of the parking fees paid monthly to the municipal administration by 147 companies.

The amount of money collected from the companies as reported by BP Parkir was much smaller than the amount paid by the companies as recorded on their receipts.

"The government should publicly announce the results of this probe to the public, so that we will be able to formulate the best method for managing parking systems in the city," Ratih Ratna Purnami, a member of the City Council's Commission D, said. (31)