Fighting for Scraps
Creditors and tax collectors are scrambling to lay their hands on assets left by the youngest son of former president Suharto, still a fugitive from the short arm of the law.
March 27, 2001
Hutomo Mandala Putra not only has yet to spend 18 months in jail and pay Rp30 billion in compensation over the scandalous land-swap between his company PT Goro and the state logistics agency known as Bulog. The playboy businessman son of disgraced ex-president Suharto who went into hiding following sentencing, also has yet to pay taxes of Rp3 trillion owed to the government for car imports.
Last week, senior economics minister Rizal Ramli a
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