THE seven accounts at three different branches of BNI bank in Jakarta have now been frozen by the Attorney General’s Office for almost a year. The six business accounts and one US dollar account are worth about Rp64 billion in total. Given the huge amount involved, one would be forgiven for thinking that the owner of the accounts was a tycoon.

But the account holder is merely Bahasyim Assifie, a former tax official who is now standing trial on