"All expenses used in the repatriation must be accounted for. The government must maximize the use of its various facilities," Emerson Yuntho of the ICW said here over the weekend.
The state should have spent less and should not have sent such a large number of people to repatriate Nazaruddin, he said.
The ICW also questioned the expenses used for searching and repatriating other suspects in the list of wanted people, such as the case of Nazaruddin.
"It is not clear which budget heading the funds come from. If the funds are taken from a number of ministries which had no budget for it, then it would have the potential to create a new form of corruption," he said.
He expressed doubts that the amounts of funds used to repatriate suspects were manipulated while the amounts of corrupted money returned by corruptors was not balanced with the repatriation cost.
"So, there must be a balance between the amounts of repatriation cost and the amounts of money returned by the corruptors," he said.(*)
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