Regent reported to antigraft body

Regent reported to antigraft body

JAKARTA: A local corruption watch body went to the Corruption
Eradication Commission (KPK) on Tuesday to report the previous
Kutai Kartanegara regent for alleged graft.

Some 30 activists from the Kutai Kartanegara Anticorruption
Committee briefed commission member Erry Riyana Hardjapamekas
about a fictitious construction project at Kutai airport last
year that allegedly involved then regent Syaukani HR. It group
said that it inflicted losses of Rp 119 billion (US$12.5 million)
on the local government.

Syaukani has also been linked to an alleged mark-up in a
renovation project and Rp 1 billion in missing election funds.

The anticorruption group said that they had written to the KPK
in connection with the alleged graft last November, but had not
received a response. -- Antara