Overfishing Funds
December 5, 2006, 2:51 am
Filed under: Law
Filed under: Law
Former Minister of Maritime Affairs, Rokhmin Dahuri, is arrested on charges of embezzling non-budgetary funds. The KPK is accused of being selective.THE sun had long since set by the time Rokhmin Dahuri, 48, emerged from the offices of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) on Thursday last week. He had been inside for some 10 hours answering questions from investigators. Although worn out, the former Minister of Maritime Affairs & Fisheries (2001-2004) was unable to return to his home in Bogor straight away. A silver Toyota Kijang was awaiting him. This was a KPK vehicle for transporting detainees that was to deliver Rokhmin to face a new contest at the National Police Criminal Investigation Bureau detention center. (more…)
0 Comments
Breaking the Code
December 5, 2006, 2:49 am
Filed under: Law
Filed under: Law
The attorney general asks journalists who have interviewed fugitive corruptors to report their interviews.ONE fugitive, Dharmono K. Lawi, does not refuse interviews. Former Speaker of the Banten Regional House of Representatives was not only interviewed by journalists, but he also appeared on a television program. Through the mass media, Lawi has voiced his protest. He felt that the legal institutions had treated him unfairly, so he decided to flee. (more…)