City official reported to police

City official reported to police

JAKARTA: Head of the city property office Margani claimed last
Saturday that he was ready to face police questioning due to a
complaint from nine companies over a tire purchasing tender worth
Rp 9 billion.

Margani admitted the tender for the tires of city-owned
vehicles which should have been conducted in August last year was
canceled due to alleged collusion among the companies.

"We then decided to appoint five other companies which had
been endorsed by tire producers," he said.

He said the appointment to purchase the tires, worth Rp 4.3
billion was allowed according to the government regulation for
emergency matters since the tires were urgently needed, including
for city-owned dump trucks and fire trucks.

Separately, spokesman for the nine companies Salmon Manurung
announced last Saturday that the companies reported Margani, the
city secretary's financial assistant Makmun Amin and four other
officials at the property office to the city police for
corruption.

Salmon said the cancellation of the tender and the purchasing
of the tires were illegal.

"It was illegal since the project (the purchasing) was also
never announced in a newspaper which is required by the
regulation," he said.--JP