Foiled Again by Tommy Suharto
The Attorney General’s Office appears to have given up trying to get its hands on Tommy Suharto’s money in Bank Paribas in the UK. The corruption allegations relied on were weak and easily fended off by Tommy’s lawyer. The government will now focus on Tommy’s money in PT Timor Putra Nasional.
March 23, 2011
AFTER facing repeated setbacks, the government appears to have finally given up on its efforts to seize funds deposited by Tommy Suharto in Banque Nationale de Paris Paribas. Following five years of legal struggle in the courts of the Channel Island of Guernsey, a local judge refused to grant a freezing order sought by the UK’s Financial Intelligence Service (FIS).
In fact, the granting of such an order to the British financial transactions wa
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