IT is difficult to understand why the Justice & Human Rights Department would agree to hold outside funds. But this is exactly what happened when funds belonging to Hutomo Mandala Putra, better known as Tommy Suharto, in Banque Nationale de Paris and Paribas, London, England branch, were released.

BNP Paribas had refused Tommy’s request to release his money deposited in a bank account in the name of Motorbike Corporation. The reason for their