Ex-banker to be tried in absentia<\/p>\n
JAKARTA: The Attorney General's Office is set to try Bambang
\nSutrisno in absentia. The former commissioner of the now-defunct
\nBank Surya is charged with misusing more than Rp 1.96 trillion
\n(US$ 200 million) in state loans.<\/p>\n
The office's spokesman, Barman Zahir, told reporters on
\nWednesday that prosecutors Arnold Angkaw, Petrus Sambara and
\nWalinga would file their case with the Central Jakarta District
\nCourt next week.<\/p>\n
\"We have yet to ascertain the suspect's whereabouts ... his
\nlawyers should cooperate with us,\" Barman said.<\/p>\n
He added that the office would stick to its plan even if
\nBambang's lawyers brought an appeal to the Supreme Court over the
\nState Administrative High Court's decision last month which
\napproved the prosecutors' request to impose a travel ban on the
\nsuspect.<\/p>\n
The court's ruling, issued on April 18, overturned an earlier
\nruling issued by the State Administrative Court in December last
\nyear.<\/p>\n
Bambang allegedly set up 103 fictitious companies to claim
\nemergency loans from Bank Indonesia in 1999, and then proceeded
\nto channel them to two dormant companies belonging to him.<\/p>\n
The trial is expected to become the second in absentia trial
\nafter the case against the former president of BHS Bank, Hendra
\nRahardja, who was sentenced to life in prison for misusing Rp 2.6
\nbillion. -- JP<\/p>",
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