Rachmadi ignores police summons

JAKARTA: Bambang N. Rachmadi, president director of PT McDonald's Indonesia, failed to appear at the Jakarta Police Headquarters on Thursday for questioning as a suspect in a Rp 40 billion graft case related to the state-owned social security company PT Jamsostek.

His lawyer did not even shown up to give any explanation about Bambang's absence.

City police chief Insp. Gen. Makbul Padmanegara said Bambang was still in Australia, and that the police would send him another letter of summons.

It was the second time that Bambang, who is the son-in-law of the former Vice President Sudharmono, failed to go to the police headquarters.

Makbul said that if Bambang still ignored the next summons, or to failed to return to Indonesia, then the police would ask Interpol to arrest Bambang.

Currently, two other suspects involved in the scam, the former president director of Jamsostek, Akmal Muchsin, and the former treasury director, Horas Simatupang, are in detention at the city police headquarters. --JP