Deputy mayor Sahid returns to prison

Deputy mayor Sahid returns to prison

BOGOR: After five weeks under city arrest status due to health
issues, Deputy Mayor M. Sahid returned to Paledang prison on
Thursday, pending trial in a corruption case involving the City
Council when the suspect was a speaker in 2002.

Sahid is the main suspect of the alleged misuse of a total of
Rp 6 billion (US$666,667) of the Council budget.

The investigation revealed that Sahid, along with 45 other
councillors, used the municipality's budget money to pay for many
of their private household expenses.

"I'm not the only one who is guilty in this case," Sahid
shouted while struggling to free himself from officers as they
were escorting him to the prison.

Head of Bogor Prosecutor's Office, Kornelis Lere, said that
the prosecutors had 20 days to submit the case to the court. --
JP