Antigraft court to hear second case

Antigraft court to hear second case

JAKARTA: The Central Jakarta District Court announced on Friday
that the anti-corruption court will hear a corruption case
involving two officials with the communications ministry on Jan.
27.

A panel of five judges, led by Judge Mansyurdin Chaniago, will
hear the case of former finance division head of the directorate
general for marine transportation of the Ministry of
Communications Harun Let Let and former secretary to the director
general for marine transportation Capt. Tarsisius Walla.

"The anti-corruption court is ready to hear the case," said I
Made Karna, the head of the Central Jakarta District Court which
supervises the anti-corruption court.

Let Let and Walla are currently being detained at the Salemba
Penitentiary in South Jakarta. The Corruption Eradication
Commission (KPK), which investigated the case, had submitted the
indictment to the court on Thursday.

They will sit in the dock for alleged involvement in the mark
up of the price of a plot of land measuring 14.5 hectares the
Ministry of Communications bought to develop a seaport in Tual,
Maluku, resulting in state losses worth over Rp 10 billion
(US$1.10 million). -- JP