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.