POLICE IN A POKE
A number of senior police officers were reported for conducting suspicious financial transactions. Originating from unclear sources, tens of billions of rupiah were deposited in their bank accounts, some of them under their children’s or their adjutants’ accounts.
June 30, 2010
HIS hands inside the pocket of his long-sleeved batik shirt, Commissioner-General Ito Sumardi asked, “What is the salary of a three-star general like me?” Smilingly, the Chief of the National Police Crime Investigation Unit, answered his own question, “Just nine million rupiah a month, plus some perks.”
Ito added that the National Police Chief, the institution’s top official, only received a salary of about Rp23 million a month, plus b
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