Unimpressive Outcomes
Three BI ex-directors facing corruption charges have received lenient verdicts, although one of them admitted to receiving "holiday bonuses" from troubled banks.
April 8, 2003
FORMER Bank Indonesia (BI) director of banking supervision, Heru Supraptomo, was looking forward to spending his retirement in peace. However, Supraptomo's former posting at Bank Indonesia has come back to haunt him. On Thursday, April 3, a Central Jakarta District Court judicial panel sentenced Supraptomo to three years in prison on corruption charges. The court verdict was more lenient than the prosecutor's indictment, which called for a six-
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