Four BLBI suspects detained

Four BLBI suspects detained

JAKARTA (JP): The Attorney General's Office has sent four
suspects in the BLBI liquidity funds scandal to Salemba
penitentiary.

The warden of the penitentiary, Sofyan Sugeng, confirmed on
Thursday evening that Kaharudin Ongko, Leonard Tanubrata,
Samadikun Hartono and David Nusa Wijaya had entered their cells
late afternoon.

Earlier, Jakarta Prosecutor's Office chief Basrief Arief said
they were taken to Salemba after being under house arrest to
allow their trials to proceed smoothly.

All four suspects will be detained at Salemba for 20 days,
Basrief said.

Ongko and Leonard are accused of misappropriating about Rp 7.7
trillion of the liquidity loans from Bank Indonesia when they
were president director and vice president commissioner of PT
Bank Umum Nasional (BUN), while the former commissioner of Bank
Modern, Samadikun, is implicated in the misuse of Rp 80.7 billion
of emergency funds.

Another suspect, the former director of PT Bank Umum Servitia,
David Nusa Wijaya, was implicated for the misuse of Rp 1.3
trillion of liquidity funds.