Bali tourism duo guilty of corruption

Friday, 16 May, 2011 0

Two formers officials in the Bali Tourism Office have been sentenced to one-year imprisonment each after being declared guilty of corrupting funds from the tourism promotion budget.

I Gede Nurjaya, the former head of the Bali provincial tourism office, and a deputy, I Gusti Putra Ambara, were found guilty of the misuse of power and corruption.

Bali Update (www.balidiscovery.com) said he one year’s sentence will be credited for the time the two men have been behind bars awaiting trial. Nurjaya was arrested in October 2010.

The men were also given a US$5,700 fine and ordered to each pay US$5,555 in compensation to the state.

The men were found guilty of conspiring to defraud the state by seeking double reimbursement from both national and provincial tourism budgets for the cost of Bali’s representation at the World Travel Mart held in London in 2008.



 

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