KPKPN questions 30 state officials

KPKPN questions 30 state officials

JAKARTA: At least 30 of the 600 state officials whose wealth
declarations have been verified by the Public Servants' Wealth
Audit Commission (KPKPN) are currently undergoing special
investigations on suspicion that they have amassed their wealth
through corruption, collusion and nepotism.

Commission chairman Yusuf Syakir said on Thursday that the
investigation results would be handed over to the police, the
Attorney General's Office and the military police if his team was
able to prove that the officials' assets, or at least half of
them, had been obtained illegally.

He refused to disclose the names of the officials or the
institutions with which they are associated, saying: "I will
reveal their names soon after the investigation has been
completed."

Earlier, the Commission had said it had found irregularities
in the wealth declarations of seven first echelon officials, four
court officials and four officials of state-owned companies. --
JP