The Jakarta Post, Wed, 03/31/2010 3:39 PM
The Attorney General's Office (AGO) has named five more suspects in alleged markup of airfares at the Foreign Ministry, bringing the total number of suspects to 10.
Junior attorney general for special crimes Marwan Effendy told reporters Wednesday that the new suspects were executives of travel agencies partnering with the ministry.
“There is the possibility of [us] naming more suspects in the case,” he said as quoted by Antara state news agency.
The case centered around the alleged markup of flights for ministry officials sent abroad, which reportedly cost the state up to Rp 20.3 billion (US$2.19 million) in losses.
The ministry has recovered Rp 9.29 billion ($1 million) of the total of the state funds embezzled during 2008-2009 by officials in the markup case.
Ministry files showed that the airfares for 273 of a total of 512 diplomat transfers (or 53 percent of cases) during 2009 were marked up, compared to 2008 when airfares for 329 of the 673 diplomat transfers (or 49 percent) were marked up.
The officials allegedly collaborated with seven travel agents to mark up the airfares.
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