Catch Me if You Can

The Supreme Court placed Joko Tjandra and Syahril Sabirin behind bars.
A day before the verdict, Joko flew to Papua New Guinea on a chartered jet.
Syahril is resigned to his fate.

June 23, 2009

THE plane with call sign CLNO4 had landed at Halim Perdana Kusuma Airport in East Jakarta, after sundown. The plane, which belonged to TAG Aviation, an airline headquartered in the United States, had flown in directly from Hong Kong at the request of Joko Soegiarto Tjandra, boss of the Mulia Group, one of Indonesia’s top property companies. On Wednesday two weeks ago, after landing at Halim, the plane immediately requested to refuel.

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