Fallen in the Forests
Arrested in Beijing, timber businessman Adelin Lis is charged with causing the state to lose Rp227 trillionfrom illegal logging, unpaid taxes and untold ecological damage. Fifty other such businessmen are being hunted down by the police. Tempos report:
September 19, 2006
HE is known as the King of Sumatra Timber. He looks regal indeedeven when he was brought back to Medan as a detainee, on Saturday two weeks ago. One brigadier-generalJohny Wainal, Deputy Chief of North Sumatra Policeand 30 of his subordinates came to pick him up at Polonia Airport. The tightly guarded police convoy escorted him out of the airport, crossing the town to the building housing the North Sumatra Regional Police Directorate General of C
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