Doctors fail to appear for Soeharto's checkup<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): A team of doctors appointed by the Attorney
\nGeneral's office failed to turn up for a re-examination of former
\npresident Soeharto on Monday.<\/p>\n
Spokesman for the Attorney General's office, Soehandoyo, said
\nthat the team was still reviewing Soeharto's previous medical
\nreport.<\/p>\n
\"The medical team only received the previous report on
\nSoeharto's health today and preparations (for the reexamination)
\nare still underway,\" Soehandoyo told The Jakarta Post.<\/p>\n
Soehandoyo gave no date for the re-examination of Soeharto,
\nwhose doctors claimed that he was medically unfit to face
\nquestioning into his alleged corruption during 32 years in
\noffice.<\/p>\n
Attorney General Marzuki Darusman said on Saturday a team of
\ndoctors appointed by the Attorney General's office would examine
\nthe former ruler at his residence on Monday.<\/p>\n
Several reporters and cameramen were seen waiting at
\nSoeharto's house on Jl. Cendana in Central Jakarta for the team
\nto arrive.<\/p>\n
Soeharto has been named a suspect by the Attorney General's
\noffice, overruling a decision by Marzuki's predecessor,
\nIsmudjoko, who suspended investigation into the high-profile case
\ndue to lack of evidence last October.<\/p>\n
Separately, the deputy attorney general for corruption Chairul
\nImam told Antara that the medical team comprises six or seven
\ndoctors coordinated by Dr. Hendra.<\/p>\n
Chairul kept the identity of the doctors secret in order \"to
\nenable them to work undisturbed\".<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, one of Soeharto's defense lawyers, Juan Felix
\nTampubolon, said that the Attorney General's office had yet to
\nnotify their client of the planned visit.<\/p>\n
\"We have not been notified and I believe that the Attorney
\nGeneral's office would not contemplate this without our
\npermission,\" Tampubolon told the Post.<\/p>\n
Tampubolon, however, has repeatedly pleaded that his client is
\nmedically unfit to undergo questioning.<\/p>\n
Two weeks ago the 78-year-old former strongman failed to
\nanswer a summons at the Attorney General's office.<\/p>\n
U.S. business magazine Forbes last year estimated Soeharto's
\nfamily fortune at some US$ 4 billion. Time magazine, which
\nSoeharto has sued, has put the figure at about US$ 15
\nbillion.(byg)<\/p>",
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