Ex-Scafindo manager tried for fraud

Ex-Scafindo manager tried for fraud

TANGERANG (JP): Tangerang District Court began on Tuesday the
trial of a former PT Scafindo Mulia Perkasa's manager charged
with misappropriating Rp 363 million through the firm's trading
company.

Prosecutor Nellita Ariani stated in the indictment that
defendant Sulastri Tjitradjaya, former operational manager of PT
Scafindo, located in the Bumi Serpong Damai housing estate in
Serpong, Tangerang, conducted the alleged crimes between December
2000 and January 2001.

The defendant faces a maximum punishment of five years
imprisonment if found guilty.

According to the prosecutor, company director Santoso Djunaidi
ordered the defendant to withdraw Rp 5 million from Bank
International Indonesia in Serpong, but the defendant never
submitted the money to the company.

Nellita said that on Feb. 19, 2000, the defendant also stole
company assets including a Timor sedan, a Sansui television, two
computers, a Nokia cellular phone, air conditioners and two PABX
telephone units.

Nellita added that the defendant had also forged the company
director's signature in a letter that authorized her to accept
money from one of the company's clients, PT Bunamaint on Jl.
Pluit Timur Block MM, Penjaringan subdistrict, North Jakarta on
Jan. 19, 2001.

The company suffered Rp 363 million in losses as a result of
the crimes, the prosecutor said.

Sulastri, 41, a resident in Perum Bukit Raflesia Block J-7 No.
2, Cibubur, Bogor, West Java, was arrested on April 7 following a
complaint filed by PT Scafindo's director.

Defense lawyer Apong Herlina of the Jakarta Legal Aid
Institute is scheduled to present her response to the
prosecutor's indictment on Aug. 7.(01)