Travel ban extended for Bob Hasan

Travel ban extended for Bob Hasan

JAKARTA (JP): The travel ban slapped on convicted timber
tycoon Mohamad "Bob" Hasan and two other suspects for the misuse
of state liquidity support has been extended for another year.

Attorney General's Office spokesman Muljohardjo said the
extension will take effect on March 29, the date their travel ban
which was imposed last year, ends.

"Our request to extend the travel ban was submitted to the
Directorate General of Immigration at the Ministry of Justice and
Human Rights on Monday," he told journalists at his office.

Chairman of PT Bank Umum Nasional (BUN) board of
commissioners, Hasan and his partners, including the board's vice
chairman Kaharudin Ongko and the bank's president director,
Leonard Tanubrata, allegedly used the liquidity support to
finance their own businesses instead of coping with the massive
bank run during the economic crisis in 1997.

Prosecutors revealed that the three had misappropriated more
than Rp 5 trillion of some Rp 12 trillion in funds channeled by
Bank Indonesia to BUN between 1997 and 1998. (bby)