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| Century Bank officials banned from leaving the country |
| 2009-04-02 |
| [Jakarta Post] The Attorney General's Office has on Wednesday slapped a ban on three Century Bank embezzlement suspects: Robert Tantular, Hermanus Hasan Muslim and Laurence Kusuma. Robert, who also owns ailing securities firm PT Antaboga Delta Sekuritas, is suspected of having embezzled a total of Rp 233 billion (US$19.4 million) worth of customers' funds to 62 bank accounts. According to AGO spokesman Jasman Pandjaitan, the ban is effective as the three suspects had been detained by the AGO since last Wednesday. "We've issued the ban so as to avoid any possibility of them fleeing the country," he argued, as quoted by tempointeraktif.com. Pandjaitan added that the AGO was closely cooperating with the Immigration Department. "The travel ban is still being finalized," he said, adding that state prosecutors were in their final stage of formulating their prosecution for Tantular and colleagues. "Once it is completed, we will hand over the case to the court," Tantular said. |
| Posted by:Fred |