Magic Funds for the Penalty King

Records of club expenditures funded by regional budgets are murky. The money may be used to inflate contracts, cover 'non-technical' costs or image-boosting.

January 26, 2011

THE man who usually stood ferocious on the sidelines sat bowed down, listless while the prosecutor read out the charges against him at the Samarinda, East Kalimantan state court. On Wednesday last week, Aidil Fitri, neatly dressed in a blue shirt with matching dark trousers, occasionally wiped his brow, although no sweat was visible on his forehead.

Aidil has been a suspect since the middle of last year. In a trial headed by senior judge Parulian

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