Senior treasurer charged with graft

Senior treasurer charged with graft

MEDAN, North Sumatra: A senior government treasurer in Medan, who
recently retired from his post, was accused on Saturday of
embezzling state money amounting to Rp 417 million (US$44,361).

Edy Sofyan, the spokesman of the North Sumatra provincial
government, said that the administration had reported the case to
the police for further investigation.

The case surfaced after Ardi Susilo, the former treasurer at
the North Sumatra provincial government's Refugee and Disaster
Mitigation Task Force, retired last week.

He handed over the accounts to his successor after his
retirement ceremony, but after an audit, it was revealed that he
had embezzled Rp 417 million of taxpayers' money. -- JP