Nurdin to be questioned in Goro Batara Sakti case
Nurdin to be questioned in Goro Batara Sakti case
JAKARTA (JP): City police will question former legislator
Nurdin Halid as a witness on Monday in connection with a
complaint filed by a sugar firm against wholesaler PT Goro Batara
Sakti (GBS).
The complaint states that PT GBS allegedly stole 100,000 tons
of sugar from the warehouse of PT Al Khaleez Sugar Co. last
December.
City police detective chief of general crimes, Comr. Tito
Karnavian, said on Friday that Nurdin, an executive of PT GBS,
could undergo a series of questioning.
"The case is about sugar and involves PT Al Khaleez. Nurdin
will come back on Monday for questioning ... I can't give you any
more details," Tito told The Jakarta Post and Media Indonesia
dailies on Friday.
According to a police source, the investigation is being
carried out based on police report no. 199/K/I/2001/SATGA OPS
"A", dated Jan. 16 this year.
Quoting the report, the police source said a lawyer of PT Al
Khaleez, Selamat Lumban Gaol, lodged the complaint against PT
GBS's operational manager, Hamka BK.
Selamat said in the report the alleged "break-in and robbery"
occurred on Dec. 12 last year when Hamka and his men broke into
the sugar firm's warehouse on Jl. Agung Karya VIII in Sunter,
North Jakarta, and drove away with tens of thousands of tons of
sugar.
"Selamat told police that 100,000 tons of Dubai-imported sugar
was supposed to be bought by PT GBS from PT Al Khaleez, as stated
in a 1999 contract between the two companies," the source said,
quoting the report.
"The 1999 contract states that PT GBS was supposed to pay a 20
percent down payment of the set price to PT Al Khaleez, before
Dec. 10, 1999, for the purchase of the sugar."
Quoting Selamat's statement in the report, the source added
that to date, the down payment had not been paid.
"Without the knowledge of PT Al Khaleez owners, the sugar in
the warehouse was suddenly taken by Hamka and his men. Hamka did
this by breaking into the sugar warehouse."
Nurdin was acquitted in March 1999 of all corruption charges
leveled at him for allegedly embezzling Rp 115.77 billion (US$12
million) from farmers' compulsory accounts at a local cooperative
center during his term as the manager between 1992 and 1994.
Nurdin is the president of the Confederation of Primary
Cooperatives Association (Inkud), which in 1998 took over Goro
wholesaler firm. (ylt)