Tutut to come to Attorney General's Office on Monday<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): Former president Soeharto's eldest daughter Siti
\nHardiyanti "Tutut" Rukmana, a suspect in a corruption case
\nconcerning a US$306 million project, will come to the Attorney
\nGeneral's Office on Monday, her lawyer said on Saturday.<\/p>\n
"God willing, Tutut will be present at the Attorney General's
\nOffice on Monday and I will accompany her during the
\nquestioning," Amir Syamsudin told The Jakarta Post by phone.<\/p>\n
He said that Tutut, who had been summoned to the office on
\nFriday morning, failed to appear due to a heavy cold.<\/p>\n
Later on Friday evening, spokesman for the Attorney General's
\nOffice Mulyohardjo stated that Tutut had been named as a suspect
\nin a corruption case involving state oil and gas company
\nPertamina.<\/p>\n
Amir said the Attorney General's Office statement naming Tutut
\na suspect in the $306 million corruption case was "premature." He
\nalso charged that the decision to name Tutut a suspect was
\ntainted by politics.<\/p>\n
However, Amir expressed the hope that his client would not be
\narrested and detained on account of her status as a suspect.<\/p>\n
According to Mulyohardjo, Pertamina and a consortium headed by
\nTutut in 1987 signed an agreement to construct a 320-kilometer
\nfuel pipeline in Java. The project was undertaken by PT Triharsa
\nBimanusa Tunggal, of which Tutut was the commissioner.<\/p>\n
The company canceled the project in 1992 due to a lack of
\nfunds. But the firm claimed that it had finished 14 percent of
\nthe work and demanded that Pertamina pay it $36.69 million in
\npart performance.<\/p>\n
It turned out that it had completed only 6.4 percent of the
\nwork and that the amount that should have been paid was only $14
\nmillion.<\/p>\n
Former Pertamina president Faisal Abda'oe and Rosano Barrack,
\npresident of PT Trihsarsa Bimanusa Tunggal, have also been named
\nas suspects in the case.<\/p>\n
Tutut, the eldest child of Soeharto, is not the only member of
\nthe former first family who has been implicated in corruption.<\/p>\n
Her brother Sigit Harjodjudanto has been questioned by the
\nAttorney General's Office in connection with an alleged $113
\nmillion markup of the Balongan oil refinery project in Indramayu,
\nWest Java, while her other brother, Bambang Trihatmodjo, has been
\ngrilled by the police over the acquisition of the assets of
\ntextile company Kanindotex.<\/p>\n
Worse, Soeharto's youngest son Hutomo "Tommy" Mandala Putra,
\nwho was convicted in a Rp 76.7 billion ($8.07) graft case, is now
\nthe country's most wanted man after he absconded from justice in
\nNovember.<\/p>\n
On Saturday, the police arrested Tommy's six bodyguards and
\nseized nine molotov cocktails, a jar of gasoline and a bullet
\nfrom the men.<\/p>\n
The arrests were made during a raid on a house located on Jl.
\nYusuf Adiwinata, Menteng, Central Jakarta conducted as part of
\nthe effort to find Tommy.<\/p>\n
"We are still questioning the men as to whether they know of
\nTommy's whereabouts. The arrests were based on the police's
\nintuition about how to go about catching the fugitive," city
\npolice detectives chief Sr. Comr. Harry Montolalu said.<\/p>\n
The guards, identified as Mateus, Ciprianus Seda, Klitus Fan,
\nMaximus, Denold, and Karnoto were arrested at the rented house
\nwhich is located near Tommy's residence on Jl. Cendana.<\/p>\n
On Jan. 8, police arrested another of Tommy's bodyguards,
\nidentified as Indra Hasan, based on a dormant 1996 illegal
\npossession of firearms case.<\/p>\n
Police also apprehended Tommy's spiritual advisor Elize Maria
\nTuwahatu on Jan. 19 at the Beautiful Indonesia in Miniature theme
\npark (TMII) in East Jakarta for illegal possession of explosives.
\n(01\/jun)<\/p>",
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