Karaha Bodas file submitted

JAKARTA: The National Police said on Wednesday that they had submitted the case file of three men suspected of corruption in the Karaha Bodas project in Garut, West Java to the Jakarta Prosecutor's Office.

"We submitted the case file on Monday. We charged them under the anticorruption law. We don't need to detain them as we are keeping a close eye on them. Don't worry, we have imposed travel bans on them," National Police director of the anticorruption division Brig. Gen. Indarto told The Jakarta Post.

Police named former head of Pertamina's geothermal division Priyanto, member of his staff, Syafei Sulaiman, and American Robert D. McKutchen of the U.S-based Karaha Bodas Company as suspects for their alleged roles in fictitious transactions and markups in the project.

Indarto said that they had caused US$50 billion in state losses. -- JP