WINFRIED Simatupang would never be confused with illusionist David Cop-perfield. Nevertheless, in March, this man, one of the accused in the corruption scandal involving Rp40 billion of Bulog's non-budget-ary funds, was able to perform magic with the attorney general's bank account. He swelled it to the tune of a not insignificant Rp40 billion.

The money, asserted Winfried, was Bulog's. He had received it from Dadang Sukandar (chair of the R