Sjahril granted five-day leave<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): Suspended Bank Indonesia (Central Bank) governor
\nSjahril Sabirin left on Wednesday for his hometown in West
\nSumatra after securing permission from the Attorney General's
\nOffice to leave his place of detention for five days, an official
\nsaid.<\/p>\n
Yushar Yahya, spokesman to the Attorney General's Office, said
\nSjahril had requested permission to visit his ailing 91-year-old
\nfather, who is now being treated at the Yarsi Hospital in the
\nBukittinggi mayoralty, West Sumatra.<\/p>\n
\"Sjahril was permitted to leave his detention from today
\n(Wednesday) until Sept. 17. A prosecutor and one of the office's
\ninternal security officers are guarding Sjahril during the trip,\"
\nhe told journalists.<\/p>\n
Yushar said the permission was granted after the Attorney
\nGeneral's Office secured the guarantee of Bank Indonesia's deputy
\ngovernor Achjar Ilyas and chief of Sjahril's team of defense
\nlawyers Sulistyo that the suspect would not flee the country nor
\ntamper with evidence.<\/p>\n
\"The permission was signed by Deputy Attorney General for
\nSpecial Crimes Ramelan,\" he said.<\/p>\n
Asked about the grounds for granting the permission, Yushar
\nsaid it was merely humanitarian.<\/p>\n
Earlier on Wednesday, Sjahril was picked up by his wife and
\ndaughter before heading for the Soekarno-Hatta International
\nAirport.<\/p>\n
Sjahril has been detained at the Attorney General's Office
\ndetention house for over 80 days, after being named a suspect in
\nthe Bank Bali scandal in early June for allegedly violating the
\ncentral bank's prudential principle in its policy to reimburse
\ninterbank loans guaranteed by the government.<\/p>\n
Before being detained, Sjahril revealed to the press that
\nPresident Abdurrahman Wahid and Attorney General Marzuki Darusman
\nhad asked him to quit his post in return for being freed of any
\ncharges or risk being named a suspect and face the legal
\nconsequences.<\/p>\n
Sjahril's lawyers had three times requested that the Attorney
\nGeneral's Office convert their client's arrest status into a city
\nor a house arrest, but each time the request was rejected.<\/p>\n
The lawyers also filed a pretrial lawsuit against Marzuki last
\nmonth over their client's detention, saying that the arrest was
\nineffective for the prosecution as Sjahril had only been
\nquestioned for two times during his detention. The lawsuit was
\nrejected by the South Jakarta District Court.<\/p>\n
One of the lawyers, Mohamad Assegaf, revealed on Tuesday that
\nthe team had planned to file a civil lawsuit against the Attorney
\nGeneral's Office with the Jakarta State Administrative Court.<\/p>\n
\"We will sue the government over the detention and any other
\nmeasures which we consider a violation of the existing laws,\"
\nAssegaf said after the third questioning of Sjahril. (bby)<\/p>",
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