Man faces trial for corruption

Man faces trial for corruption

SERANG, West Java: The district court will open the trial of a
land broker accused of embezzling Rp 1.9 billion (US$850,000) in
a fund earmarked for land acquisition.

The suspect, H. Bah, 43, will be charged with embezzling the
money of the Golden Key Group, which was to acquire land worth Rp
4 billion for the expansion of its chemical factory in 1990.

Bah used to be a trustee of the company's president director
Eddy Tansil, who has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after
he was convicted of abusing US$620 million for the project last
year.

A spokesman for the Serang district court, Soedardji, told
Antara yesterday that Bah, who has been detained since Aug. 2,
will be tried in the middle of this month.

Bah, he said, was reported to the police by the company after
he failed to account for the Rp 1.9 billion of the Rp 4 billion
he received from Golden Key.

Sources at the district court said that Bah is also facing
other charges of collaborating with local government officials
and selling 6.4 hectares of state land to Golden Key. (pan)