More suspects detained in BNI case<\/p>\n
Eva C. Komandjaja, The Jakarta Post\/Jakarta<\/p>\n
Police said on Friday they had detained two more suspects in the
\n2002 embezzlement of Rp 1.7 trillion (US$182 million) from Bank
\nNegara Indonesia (BNI).<\/p>\n
Yoke Yola Sigar and Dicky Iskandardinata, both charged with
\nmoney laundering, were arrested on Thursday night in Jakarta, and
\nwere being intensively grilled at the National Police
\nheadquarters.<\/p>\n
The arrests came three months after businessman Adrian
\nWaworuntu, a key suspect in the misuse of the funds disbursed by
\nBNI's Kebayoran Baru branch, was sentenced to death last April by
\nthe South Jakarta District Court.<\/p>\n
Also, prosecutors in Medan, North Sumatra, arrested three
\nformer BNI directors on Wednesday for their alleged involvement
\nin a lending scam worth up to Rp 500 billion.<\/p>\n
The Medan Prosecutor's Office spokesman A.J. Ketaren said
\nformer BNI president director Saifuddin Hasan, former treasury
\ndirector Rachmat Wiriaatmadja and former corporate director Suryo
\nSutanto were responsible for disbursing the loan to PT Industri
\nBaja Garuda, which was found to have been used for other purposes
\nthan the one stated in the credit application.<\/p>\n
National Police spokesman Insp. Gen. Aryanto Boedihardjo said
\nYoke, who is Adrian's sister and a commissioner of PT Aditya
\nPutrapratama Finance, had allegedly received Rp 5.1 billion
\ndisbursed from BNI through fictitious letters of credit from
\nBNI's Kebayoran Baru branch.<\/p>\n
Dicky was the owner of a company that also allegedly obtained
\nsome of the money, but the police could not yet determine his
\nexact role in the case, according to Aryanto.<\/p>\n
Dicky, who had been jailed over a lending scam at the
\nliquidated Bank Duta, and Yoke were among a total of 17 suspects
\nin the BNI scandal to face graft trials. The first nine suspects
\nhad all been sentenced to prison, including Adrian Waworuntu.<\/p>\n
The eight others were John Hamenda who got 20 years in jail;
\nOlla Abdullah Agam, Aprilla Widata and Adrian Pandelaki, all for
\n15 years; Richard Kountul (10 years), Titik Pristiwati, (8 years)
\nand BNI Kebayoran Baru head Koesadiyuwono (15 years), while the
\nbranch office's customer service head was sentenced to life.<\/p>\n
The police were hunting down another key suspect Maria Pauline
\nLumowa who remains at large. The Dutch woman, who was born in
\nIndonesia, was a commissioner of PT Gramarindo, one of the
\ncompanies receiving the funds from BNI Kebayoran Baru. She is
\ncurrently residing in Singapore but could not be captured by the
\nIndonesian police due to the absence of an extradition agreement
\nwith the neighboring country.<\/p>\n
The police however planned to try Maria in absentia soon.<\/p>\n
Other suspects, namely Jeffry Baso and Yudhi, had been
\ndetained for 20 days as regulated by the Criminal Code Procedures
\n(KUHAP), but were released later as the police failed to complete
\ntheir case files.<\/p>\n
\"The dossiers of Jeffry Baso and Yudi were returned by
\nprosecutors five times and we are once again working on them
\nnow,\" said fraud squad director at the National Police Brig. Gen.
\nAndi Chaeruddin.<\/p>",
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