Sjahril released, plans to resume BI post: Lawyer<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): Suspended Bank Indonesia Governor Sjahril
\nSabirin was released from the custody of the Attorney General's
\nOffice on Tuesday and plans to resume his old position, a lawyer
\nsaid.<\/p>\n
\"This is a surprise and it is very good news for us. The
\nofficial letter for his release was issued by Assistant for
\nSpecial Crimes to the Jakarta Provincial Prosecutor's Office
\nchief Andi Syarifuddin,\" Mohammad Assegaf told The Jakarta Post.<\/p>\n
\"He plans to resume his position as central bank governor. If
\nhe has to, he'll fight to get his post back,\" he said.<\/p>\n
Sjahril's immediate plans, Assegaf said, include a scheduled
\nvisit to the central bank on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Sjahril was suspected of violating the central bank's
\nprudential principle in its policy to reimburse a Rp 904 billion
\n(US$96 million) interbank loan guaranteed by the government in
\nconnection with the Bank Bali scandal.<\/p>\n
Prosecutor Andi confirmed on Tuesday that he had signed
\nrelease letter No. 2296\/0.1.5\/FD.1\/12\/2000 and that he felt the
\nsuspect's release was justified.<\/p>\n
\"Sjahril still has to report to the Attorney General's Office
\nevery Monday. He was released due to an official guarantee given
\nby his lawyers and the central bank board of governors,\" Andi
\ntold the Post.<\/p>\n
\"Besides, his arrest ends on Wednesday night. I have informed
\nthis matter to my superior, Jakarta Provincial Prosecutor's
\nOffice chief Bachtiar Fachri Nasution. He should inform the
\nattorney general on that matter.\"<\/p>\n
Attorney General Marzuki Darusman, however, said that as far
\nas he knew, the arrest status ended on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
\"I'm sure that the arrest status ends on Tuesday. In any case,
\nhis arrest status can no longer be extended because it has
\nexpired. He is therefore no longer in the custody of the
\nprosecutors,\" Marzuki told the Post.<\/p>\n
Marzuki added that prosecutors had yet to submit Sjahril's
\ndossier to the Central Jakarta District Court, even though the
\nhouse arrest term pending the trial had ended.<\/p>\n
\"The suspect is officially a free man. The decision whether
\nSjahril will get his post back is up to the bank's board of
\ngovernors. It's not up to us to lift his suspension, even if we
\nwere asked to,\" Marzuki said.<\/p>\n
\"There is no deal with any party to make it possible for
\nSjahril to get his job back.\"<\/p>\n
Marzuki said although Sjahril was no longer in the custody of
\nhis office, prosecutors planned to soon submit the case's dossier
\nto the Central Jakarta District Court. He did not give a date.<\/p>\n
\"We will not let the case go. We have worked all this time to
\ntake Sjahril to court,\" he said.<\/p>\n
After prosecutors reverted his status to house arrest, Sjahril
\nleft the Attorney General's Office after a three-month
\nconfinement on Sept. 22. The decision came after Sjahril's
\nlawyers submitted a plea for an arrest cessation on that day.<\/p>\n
It was the third such request submitted since Sjahril was
\nplaced in detention on June 21.<\/p>\n
The house arrest notification was signed by Director of
\nInvestigation Sudibyo Saleh and was valid until Oct. 18.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors had also extended Sjahril's arrest by 30 days,
\nstarting from Sept. 19 and lasting until Oct. 18.<\/p>\n
It was extended to Nov. 6, and then to Dec. 6, the date the
\narrest pending the trial ends. (ylt\/bby)<\/p>",
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