Court to question another Arutmin bookkeeper over graft case
Friday, October 13 2000 - 04:00 AM WIB
The panel of judges at the Balikpapan District Court in East Kalimantan ordered on Thursday the prosecutors to present a bookkeeper of coal mining company PT Arutmin Indonesia for questioning over the graft case which reportedly incurred Rp 5.1 billion (US$1=Rp 8,875) on the company.
The bookkeeper, identified as Kantoriyadi, is responsible for making monthly reports on the company's expenditure, local daily Kaltim Post reported.
During the Thursday court session, presiding judge R Sukendar instructed the prosecutors to present the man during the next session on Tuesday.
Arutmin, a subsidiary of Australian firm BHP Pty. Ltd, normally spend Rp 700 million in an annual transportation cost but last year the transportation cost rose to Rp 5.1 billion.
The prosecutors accused company sub-contractor CV Cakra Inti Pursuma Balikpapan of marking up the transportation bill in cooperation with some of Arutmin's staffers.
Three Arutmin employees had been imprisoned over the graft case, while president of Cakra Inti has been placed under house arrest. (*)