Ex-Bank Bali president called a liar<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI
\nPerjuangan) lodged a complaint on Friday at the National Police
\nHeadquarters against Rudy Ramli in connection with an earlier
\nstatement in the media that he never kept account of the
\nquestionable Bank Bali transaction or those involved in the
\nscandal.<\/p>\n
\"That is a blatant lie since I have his account. Rudy gave it
\nto me voluntarily when he came for legal help on Aug. 11 and
\nasked me to be his lawyer,\" said Amien Haryoso, deputy head of
\nthe legal department at PDI Perjuangan's research and development
\ndivision.<\/p>\n
\"Rudy has practically written a diary on the whole process of
\nthe transaction, from beginning to end.\"<\/p>\n
Minister of Justice\/State Secretary Muladi said on Thursday
\nthat former Bank Bali president Rudy Ramli sent a statement to
\nPresident B.J. Habibie denying the existence of a diary
\ncontaining a chronology of his successive meetings with senior
\nministers and Habibie's close associates in the lead-up to the
\nBank Bali scandal.<\/p>\n
Muladi distributed the copies of Rudy's statement of denial to
\nreporters following a Cabinet meeting on security and political
\naffairs.<\/p>\n
Rudy said in the statement that he only told of a \"fake
\naccount due to pressure from PDI Perjuangan\".<\/p>\n
Rudy reportedly claimed that pressure came from Maj. Gen.
\n(ret.) Suhartoyo, who is currently deputy head of the human
\nresources department at the party's research and development
\ndivision.<\/p>\n
Rudy claimed that Suhartoyo had kidnapped him.<\/p>\n
Amien said that he had no idea who kidnapped Rudy, but it was
\ncertainly \"not Suhartoyo,\" who accompanied Amien to the National
\nPolice Headquarters.<\/p>\n
\"We come to the police not only to lodge a complaint but also
\nto submit the account and other information Rudy gave us,\" Amien
\nsaid.<\/p>\n
When asked if he was still a defense lawyer for Rudy, Amien
\nsaid that he was \"thankfully fired since Rudy is a big liar\".<\/p>\n
Rudy's diary identifies the following figures involved prior
\nto and during the process of the illegal Bank Bali transaction:
\nBusinessmen Djoko. S. Chandra and Setya Novanto, deputy chairman
\nof the Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency (IBRA) Pande Lubis,
\nBank Bali director Firman Soetjahja, Bank Indonesia Governor
\nSjahril Sabirin, Head of the Supreme Advisory Council A.A.
\nBaramuli, State Minister of the Empowerment of State Enterprises
\nTanri Abeng and Minister of Finance Bambang Subianto, tycoon M.
\nManimaren, Hariman Siregar and Habibie's younger brother Suyatim
\n\"Timmy\" Habibie.<\/p>\n
PDI Perjuangan issued a statement to the media last week of
\nthe involvement of senior ministers and Habibie's inner circle in
\nthe Bank Bali scandal.<\/p>\n
The scandal revolves around the transfer of Rp 546 billion
\n(about US$73 million at current rate) of funds from Bank Bali to
\nprivate firm PT Era Giat Prima (EGP) as a commission for its
\nservice in helping the bank recoup some Rp 904 billion ($135
\nmillion at current rate) in interbank claims on closed-down Bank
\nBDNI from IBRA.<\/p>\n
EGP is a company owned by Djoko and Setya, both affiliated
\nwith Habibie's Golkar Party.<\/p>\n
IBRA insisted that Bank Bali should not have used EGP's
\nservice because the interbank claims were guaranteed through the
\ngovernment blanket guarantee program.<\/p>\n
Although the missing funds were returned by EGP, the public,
\nthe House of Representatives and the international community have
\ndemanded all people involved in the scandal should be legally
\nprocessed because a crime was committed.<\/p>\n
The Habibie administration is facing increasing pressure from
\nthe public, the House and international community to take strong
\nlegal action against all the culprits implicated in the scandal.<\/p>\n
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the House demanded
\nan independent investigation should be made to trace the flow of
\nfunds from Bank Bali to other bank accounts to check who were the
\npeople involved in the case.<\/p>\n
The World Bank country director for Indonesia, Mark Baird,
\nwarned the government earlier in the week to resolve the Bank
\nBali scandal quickly and \"satisfactorily,\" or it would suspend
\nits budgetary support to the government.<\/p>\n
The fund's Asia Pacific director, Hubert Neiss, also told
\nreporters on Thursday that the IMF would take strong action
\nagainst an unsatisfactory resolution of the scandal.<\/p>\n
The fund is organizing a US$43 billion bailout fund to help
\nfinance the country's economic programs.<\/p>\n
Separately, Budhy Tjahjati, the deputy for international
\ncooperation at the National Development Planning Board
\n(Bappenas), said on Friday that there was no doubt that
\nmultilateral institutions would stop financial support to
\nIndonesia if the resolution to the scandal was far from
\nexpectation.<\/p>\n
She said that the government must take the threat from the
\nWorld Bank and IMF seriously.<\/p>\n
She also said that the government should seriously start
\nthinking of alternative sources of financing in anticipation of a
\npossible suspension of either World Bank or IMF loans.<\/p>\n
\"But the most important thing to understand is that the threat
\nwas made to push us (the government) to move quickly to resolve
\nthe Bank Bali case,\" she told reporters after a meeting with
\nrepresentatives of donor institutions.<\/p>\n
In a related development, sources at the National Police said
\npolice investigations of the case had so far concluded that Bank
\nIndonesia executives were \"in the clear\". (rei\/ylt)<\/p>",
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