President's OK sought to query Subiakto

President's OK sought to query Subiakto

The Jakarta Post, Jakarta

Jakarta Police awaited permission from President Megawati
Soekarnoputri to question a member of the People's Consultative
Assembly, Subiakto Tjakrawerdaya, who was suspected of
involvement in a Rp 10 billion land scam at the State Logistics
Agency (Bulog), an officer said on Friday.

Chief of the city police detective unit, Sr. Comr. Adang
Rochjana, said the request to question Subiyakto, who held the
position of cooperative minister under the administration of
former president Soeharto, had been sent through the National
Police and the Attorney General's Office.

According to Adang, two summons had earlier been sent to
Subiakto but the latter refused to appear, saying he needed to
receive permission from the president in relation to any
questioning on criminal cases.

Subiakto was allegedly implicated in the case in relation to
his position as the chairman of the cooperative ministry's own
employees' cooperative in 1990 during which funds of Rp 10
billion were disbursed to purchase a 4003 square meter block of
land on Jl. H.R. Rasuna Said, Kuningan, South Jakarta, which
belonged to Bambang Trihatmodjo.

Bambang is Soeharto's second eldest son.

Police opened the investigation following reports from several
employees who said that the land price had been marked up to
conceal the presence of the remaining funds.