SEAB customer's complaint

SEAB customer's complaint

JAKARTA (JP): A customer of South East Asian Bank (SEAB),
which was liquidated last November, has complained about the
difficulty in recovering a large part of her savings from the
bank.

The customer, Indrawati Halim, said she had only received some
Rp 30 million of the Rp 100 million in the account, suspecting
that the remainder had been embezzled by irresponsible bank
employees.

"I don't know where else I can turn too. I keep going to SEAB,
trying to collect my money, but those bankers are already gone,"
she said.

Indrawati said she became a customer of SEAB in February 1995,
and that two of the bank's employees, Sien Cu and Lili, had
convinced her to keep all of her money there.

"At first everything went well. I admitted that I didn't know
anything about banking, and so these two people guided me and
persuaded me to put Rp 100 million in SEAB," she said.

SEAB was liquidated last November. The two bankers disappeared
and Indrawati became worried about her money.

"I'm going crazy. I still haven't received the rest of the
money," she said on Monday.

The case was reported to the city police for further
investigation last month. (edt)