Indonesia determined to bring Tansil to justice<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): The Indonesian government expressed its
\ndetermination Wednesday to bring back business tycoon Eddy
\nTansil, despite not having an extradition treaty with China where
\nthe fugitive has reportedly fled.<\/p>\n
Coordinating Minister for Political Affairs and Security,
\nFeisal Tanjung, said, \"Jakarta will approach the Chinese
\ngovernment to deliver Tansil to us.<\/p>\n
\"He's a criminal. We'll try to have him arrested and
\nextradited from China,\" Feisal told reporters at his office.<\/p>\n
Similarly, Attorney General Andi M. Ghalib said Wednesday that
\nhis office would seek the assistance of the Chinese government in
\nextraditing Tansil.<\/p>\n
He added that Indonesia was now working out a plan to
\nestablish extradition treaties with Hong Kong and China.<\/p>\n
However it is not clear how long it would take to set up such
\na treaty.<\/p>\n
According to Ghalib, the Attorney General's Office would seek
\nhelp from both the Hong Kong administration and Chinese
\ngovernment in pinpointing Tansil's exact whereabouts.<\/p>\n
The Movement of Concerned Citizens on State Assets (Gempita)
\non Monday claimed that Tansil was currently running a premium
\nbrewery in Putian, in Fujian province, China, under a licensing
\nagreement with Germany's Beck's Beer Company.<\/p>\n
Gempita alleged that Tansil had not changed his name since his
\nescape and is known in China as \"Mr. ET\".<\/p>\n
He reportedly wholly owns the Putian Golden Key Brewery with
\nan estimated investment of at least US$ 10 million.<\/p>\n
Tansil, 42, was serving the second year of a 17-year sentence
\nfor corruption and violation of banking laws when he escaped from
\nCipinang penitentiary in East Jakarta in May 1996.<\/p>\n
He was found guilty of taking more than US$ 430 million in a
\ncredit scam from the then state-owned Bapindo bank between 1989
\nand 1991 for the construction of several chemical factories under
\nhis Golden Key Group.<\/p>\n
Spokesman for the Directorate General of Immigration at the
\nMinistry of Justice, Mursanuddin A. Gani, told The Jakarta Post
\non Wednesday that his office was still monitoring Tansil's
\nwhereabouts, but said there was no proof yet as to where he
\nactually is.<\/p>\n
Efforts to recapture Tansil started last year when then
\nJustice Minister Oetojo Oesman asked China's visiting Deputy
\nJustice Minister Xiao Jianzhang to arrest Tansil if the fugitive
\nbusinessman was indeed living in China.<\/p>\n
A year has passed but there has been no information from the
\nChinese government of Tansil's whereabouts.<\/p>\n
Apart from the brewery, Tansil reportedly owns two other
\ncompanies in China, one of them a real estate company.<\/p>\n
He is also believed to hold several bank accounts in
\nSingapore, Hong Kong, China and Taiwan. (imn)<\/p>",
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