Police fails to question Nurdin

Police fails to question Nurdin

JAKARTA (JP): Former legislator Nurdin Halid, who is an
executive of wholesaler PT Goro Batara Sakti, was too busy to
come to police headquarters to answer questions about the alleged
misappropriation of 100,000 tons of sugar by the company, an
officer said Thursday.

City police detectives' chief of general crimes, Comr. Tito
Karnavian, said that four officials from PT GBS and four others
from PT Al Khaleez Sugar, the sugar firm which reported the
alleged crime, were questioned on Wednesday in connection with
the report.

"Nurdin Halid himself did not show up on Wednesday since he
claimed he was very busy," Comr. Karnavian, told The Jakarta Post
on Thursday by telephone.

PT GBS has been accused of stealing 100,000 tons of sugar from
the warehouse of PT Al Khaleez Sugar Co., last December.

Nurdin, the president of the Confederation of Primary
Cooperatives (Inkud), was acquitted in March 1999 of 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. (ylt)