FOR five years now, the case of criminal banking fraud has lain buried. At that time, before PT Unibank Tbk was closed on October 29 2001, Bank Indonesias (BI) special criminal investigation unit had reported the banking violations to the National Police. Since then, follow-up action on the case has been unclear.

On Monday last week, however, there was a surprise. Two investigators from the Team to Eradicate Crimes of Corruption arrived at BIs cen