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37433
Thu, 12/25/2008 - 21:47
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AGO HOPES PPATK WILL TRACE ADRIAN'S ASSETS
Jakarta, Dec 25 (ANTARA) - The Attorney General's Office (AGO) hopes that the Financial Transactions Analysis and Report Center (PPATK) will be able to trace assets of the for-life convict Arian Kiki Ariawan.
"If we use the Australian legal system, we could only trace Adrian's assets which are recorded in the last six months," Junior Attorney General Muchtar Arifin, who is also chairman of the AGO's Corruption Investigation Team, said here on Wednesday night.
Ariawan, who is former boss of Bank Surya, has embezzled Rp1.5 trillion in Bank Indonesia (BI)'s liquidity support credit (BLBI) and is now detained in Australia.
He said however that the most important thing was how to extradite Adrian Kiki Ariawan to Indonesia. "We want to extradite Ariawan first. If he is already here we can talk to him."
Arifin said he was optimistic that Ariawan could be extradited soon although under Australian law, he had to wait for about 2.5 years before his status was decided to be legally binding.
"We are optimistic to have sent him back to Indonesia soon because we have strong evidence on his corruption case," Arifin said.
Andrian Kiki Ariawan (director of Bank Surya) and Bambang Sutrisno (deputy director of Bank Surya) were sentenced to life imprisonment by the Central Jakarta District Court in 2002. The two were and convicted in absentia after found guilty of committing corruption in a BLBI fraud case which involved Rp1.5 trillion.
Ariawan and Sutrisno were to have channeled the BLBI funds to a group of 103 fictitious companies so that it caused 1.5 trillion in losses to the state.
The two convicts, the judges said, have violated article 1 point 1 sub a, in lieu of article 28 and article 24c of Law No. 3 / 1971, in lieu of article 55 point 1 and article 64 point 1 of the Criminal Code.
Andirian Kiki Ariawan fled to Australia while Bambang Sutrisno escaped to Singapore.***3***
"If we use the Australian legal system, we could only trace Adrian's assets which are recorded in the last six months," Junior Attorney General Muchtar Arifin, who is also chairman of the AGO's Corruption Investigation Team, said here on Wednesday night.
Ariawan, who is former boss of Bank Surya, has embezzled Rp1.5 trillion in Bank Indonesia (BI)'s liquidity support credit (BLBI) and is now detained in Australia.
He said however that the most important thing was how to extradite Adrian Kiki Ariawan to Indonesia. "We want to extradite Ariawan first. If he is already here we can talk to him."
Arifin said he was optimistic that Ariawan could be extradited soon although under Australian law, he had to wait for about 2.5 years before his status was decided to be legally binding.
"We are optimistic to have sent him back to Indonesia soon because we have strong evidence on his corruption case," Arifin said.
Andrian Kiki Ariawan (director of Bank Surya) and Bambang Sutrisno (deputy director of Bank Surya) were sentenced to life imprisonment by the Central Jakarta District Court in 2002. The two were and convicted in absentia after found guilty of committing corruption in a BLBI fraud case which involved Rp1.5 trillion.
Ariawan and Sutrisno were to have channeled the BLBI funds to a group of 103 fictitious companies so that it caused 1.5 trillion in losses to the state.
The two convicts, the judges said, have violated article 1 point 1 sub a, in lieu of article 28 and article 24c of Law No. 3 / 1971, in lieu of article 55 point 1 and article 64 point 1 of the Criminal Code.
Andirian Kiki Ariawan fled to Australia while Bambang Sutrisno escaped to Singapore.***3***
