Severing Ties

Ex-masseur to the president, Suwondo, has been charged with three years imprisonment. The link between the Bulog case, the president and his associates, has almost been broken.

July 3, 2001

Just one more step and President Abdurrahman Wahid's name will be `officially' cleared of alleged involvement in the embezzlement of State Logistics Agency (Bulog) funds corruption scandal. Last Tuesday, June 26, at the North Jakarta District Court, District Attorney Nulis Sembiring, filed charges against Suwondo, the president's masseur, accusing him of masterminding the embezzlement of Rp35 billion in Bulog funds. Nulis requested that the court

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