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Former treasurer jailed for nearly five years April 21, 2012 Muhammad Nazaruddin, former treasurer of Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's ruling Democrat Party, smiles as he leaves the courtroom after his trial in Jakarta. Muhammad Nazaruddin smiles as he leaves the courtroom yesterday. Photo: Reuters Indonesia has sentenced the former treasurer of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's Democrat Party to four years and 10 months in prison after finding him guilty on corruption charges. The country's anti-corruption court found that Muhammad Nazaruddin had taken 4.68 billion rupiah ($A490,000) in bribes, Judge Dharmawati Ningsih said in Jakarta. Nazaruddin was also fined 200 million rupiah, she said. The conviction comes as Mr Yudhoyono struggles to recover from falling support after Nazaruddin's arrest in August and his failure last month to push a fuel price increase through parliament. Nazaruddin was on trial over alleged corruption involving building projects for the South-east Asian Games. ''This provides a sense that the President has some control over the Democrat Party and more importantly it highlights his commitment to the anti-corruption struggle,'' said Leonard Sebastian, an associate professor at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. ''People will see this as a step forward but they will want to see more done.'' Mr Yudhoyono won a second five-year term with 61 per cent of the vote in 2009 on vows to boost growth, double infrastructure spending and clean up graft. A poll by Indonesian Survey Circle published in February, the most recently released, showed 48.3 per cent of respondents approved of his performance, down from 56.7 per cent in January 2011. Legislators rejected the government's bid for 33 per cent rise in the price of subsidised fuel, instead giving it the power to raise prices only if the Indonesia crude price exceeds the budget assumption of $101 a barrel by an average 15 per cent in a six-month period. Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/former-treasurer-jailed-for-nearly-five-years-20120420-1xcju.html#ixzz1shnmB2K8 -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 7 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 285 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len The Professional version does not have this message [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Post message: prole...@egroups.com Subscribe : proletar-subscr...@egroups.com Unsubscribe : proletar-unsubscr...@egroups.com List owner : proletar-ow...@egroups.com Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: proletar-dig...@yahoogroups.com proletar-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: proletar-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
