www.thejakartaglobe.com - A fugitive in the high-profile Bank Indonesia bailout case has been
arrested in San Fransisco, California, after a decade on the run, the
Indonesian police said in Jakarta on Friday.
It is not clear yet
when the arrest was made, but Sherny Kojongian, 49, a former director
with Bank Harapan Sentosa (BHS), is expected to arrive in Jakarta on
June 13.
“She will be deported from San Fransisco on June 11.
[When she arrives] she will be immediately escorted to the Attorney
General’s Office,” Indonesia’s National Police spokesman Sr. Comr. Boy
Rafli Amar said in Jakarta on Friday. (source)
Boy said Sherny’s arrest was coordinated with Interpol, which issued a warrant for Sherny in 2002.
Sherny
fled Indonesia before she was sentenced by the Central Jakarta District
Court to 20 years in prison for embezzling state money via the Bank
Indonesia Liquidity Support (BLBI) bailout funds. Sherny was convicted
of disbursing money to six business groups and 28 fake financing firms
between 1992 and 1996.
The court sentenced BHS commissioners
Hendra Rahardja and Eko Edi Putranto to life in prison over the same
case, which is believed to have cost the state some Rp 1.95 trillion
($209 million). The central bank ordered BHS to cease disbursement of
the overdraft loans to the 28 firms in Sep. 1997 — an order which Sherny
and the two other convicts ignored.
According to results of
audits performed by the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK), Rp 138.4 trillion,
or 96 percent of Rp 144.5 trillion in BLBI bailout funds disbursed to 48
banks during the peak of the 1997 Asian financial crisis were
embezzled.
BeritaSatu/JG
Source: http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/home/bank-indonesia-bailout-scandal-fugitive-arrested-in-us/523151 - June 8, 2012
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