Nurdin to be questioned in Goro Batara Sakti case<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): City police will question former legislator
\nNurdin Halid as a witness on Monday in connection with a
\ncomplaint filed by a sugar firm against wholesaler PT Goro Batara
\nSakti (GBS).<\/p>\n
The complaint states that PT GBS allegedly stole 100,000 tons
\nof sugar from the warehouse of PT Al Khaleez Sugar Co. last
\nDecember.<\/p>\n
City police detective chief of general crimes, Comr. Tito
\nKarnavian, said on Friday that Nurdin, an executive of PT GBS,
\ncould undergo a series of questioning.<\/p>\n
\"The case is about sugar and involves PT Al Khaleez. Nurdin
\nwill come back on Monday for questioning ... I can't give you any
\nmore details,\" Tito told The Jakarta Post and Media Indonesia
\ndailies on Friday.<\/p>\n
According to a police source, the investigation is being
\ncarried out based on police report no. 199\/K\/I\/2001\/SATGA OPS
\n\"A\", dated Jan. 16 this year.<\/p>\n
Quoting the report, the police source said a lawyer of PT Al
\nKhaleez, Selamat Lumban Gaol, lodged the complaint against PT
\nGBS's operational manager, Hamka BK.<\/p>\n
Selamat said in the report the alleged \"break-in and robbery\"
\noccurred on Dec. 12 last year when Hamka and his men broke into
\nthe sugar firm's warehouse on Jl. Agung Karya VIII in Sunter,
\nNorth Jakarta, and drove away with tens of thousands of tons of
\nsugar.<\/p>\n
\"Selamat told police that 100,000 tons of Dubai-imported sugar
\nwas supposed to be bought by PT GBS from PT Al Khaleez, as stated
\nin a 1999 contract between the two companies,\" the source said,
\nquoting the report.<\/p>\n
\"The 1999 contract states that PT GBS was supposed to pay a 20
\npercent down payment of the set price to PT Al Khaleez, before
\nDec. 10, 1999, for the purchase of the sugar.\"<\/p>\n
Quoting Selamat's statement in the report, the source added
\nthat to date, the down payment had not been paid.<\/p>\n
\"Without the knowledge of PT Al Khaleez owners, the sugar in
\nthe warehouse was suddenly taken by Hamka and his men. Hamka did
\nthis by breaking into the sugar warehouse.\"<\/p>\n
Nurdin was acquitted in March 1999 of all corruption charges
\nleveled at him for allegedly embezzling Rp 115.77 billion (US$12
\nmillion) from farmers' compulsory accounts at a local cooperative
\ncenter during his term as the manager between 1992 and 1994.<\/p>\n
Nurdin is the president of the Confederation of Primary
\nCooperatives Association (Inkud), which in 1998 took over Goro
\nwholesaler firm. (ylt)<\/p>",
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