Customer asks for status of blocked bank account<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): A customer of the Standard Chartered Bank here
\nhas asked the authorities to immediately explain the status of
\nher account of Rp 1 billion which was blocked by the bank four
\nmonths ago.<\/p>\n
\"We need clarification. The sooner, the better,\" businesswoman
\nYee Mei Mei, a Hong Kong national operating a investment service
\ncompany here, told The Jakarta Post here yesterday.<\/p>\n
\"Whatever the status of our account is, the central bank, or
\nthe minister of finance, or the police, should let us know,\" said
\nMei Mei.<\/p>\n
\"That way we'll know what steps to take,\" she said after
\nhosting a reception for the visiting Vanuatu Prime Minister
\nCarlot Korman, who was here on a one-day unofficial visit.<\/p>\n
The money was transferred by Dragon Bank's office headquarters
\nin Vanuatu, an island country in the Pacific Ocean, she said.<\/p>\n
Detectives of the economic crime section at the National
\nPolice Headquarters had questioned David Hawkins, chief executive
\nof the Standard's Indonesian office.<\/p>\n
National Police Spokesman Brig. Gen. Nurfaizi as well as
\nexecutives of the bank could not be reached yesterday for
\ncomment.<\/p>\n
Through her lawyer, Mei Mei also filed another lawsuit against
\nthree executives of the Standard Chartered to the Jakarta
\nMetropolitan Police, accusing them of having violated existing
\nbank rules by providing secret information of his customer's
\nidentities and account to a third party.<\/p>\n
City Police spokesman confirmed that Standard spokeswoman Rina
\nDjamal, along with several witnesses, has been questioned in
\nregard with the lawsuit.<\/p>\n
\"But the investigation is still going on,\" Iman told the Post.
\ndirector of PT Perdana Investco, a holding company.<\/p>\n
According to lawyer Rusdi, his client had been prevented from
\nclosing her bank account on at least three separate occasions in
\nJanuary, without legitimate reasons.<\/p>\n
\"The bank only informed my client that it was Bank Indonesia
\nwhich had advised Standard Chartered Bank to temporarily block
\nMei Mei's account,\" Rusdi said. \"But they don't have any written
\nstatement from the central bank.\"<\/p>\n
A latest release from the Standard Chartered revealed that \"it
\nwas advised to freeze the funds until it could be ascertained
\nwhether there was a link\" with the fraud at the Hongkong and
\nShanghai Banking Corporation Limited in Indonesia earlier this
\nyear.<\/p>\n
\"Such precautions accord with international best practice and
\nare not intended to cause any embarrassment to the account
\nholder,\" the release said, adding that \"Hongkong Bank has
\nprovided an indemnity to Standard Chartered in relation to the
\nfreezing of the account. (bsr)<\/p>",
"url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/customer-asks-for-status-of-blocked-bank-account-1447893297",
"image": ""
},
"sponsor": "Okusi Associates",
"sponsor_url": "https:\/\/okusiassociates.com"
}