Ex councillor gets four years jail

Ex councillor gets four years jail

BANDUNG/MATARAM: Bandung District Court sentenced on Thursday
Kurdi Moekri, a former West Java councillor, to four years in
prison for graft that brought losses to the state amounting to Rp
24.9 billion (US$2.49 million).

The defendant, who served on the council between 1994 and
2004, was found guilty of disbursing the money to the councillors
for a housing allowance, while the money should have been
allocated for the welfare of West Java Police and prosecutors.
The money was taken from the West Java provincial budget between
2001 and 2002.

Separately, a West Nusa Tenggara prosecutor recommended that a
local district court sentence 11 former councillors in a similar
graft case.

The graft case had brought losses to the state amounting to Rp
17.5 billion, said prosecutor Maryadi during a court session in
Mataram, the capital of West Nusa Tenggara. -- JP