Prosecutors looking into graft cases

MAKASSAR, South Sulawesi: A senior official in the South Sulawesi Prosecutor's Office said his office has been investigating 75 corruption cases over the last two years.

Mailan Syarief, the deputy head of the special crimes division, said that of the 75 graft cases, the office had completed its investigation into 41, and the dossiers on those cases had been handed over to the district courts.

"We are now investigating the remaining 34 cases," he said on Tuesday.

The 75 cases are thought to have cost the state dozens of billions of rupiah in losses, he said. -- JP