Money and Masking Tape
February 24, 2010
ONE afternoon in April 2008, Emir Moeis, a House of Representatives (DPR) member from the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), contacted Steffanie, a private banking account officer at Bank Century, and asked her to deposit some money for him. Steffanie then collected the funds from the Wisma Bakrie 2 Building. The money was placed in a cardboard box and sealed tight with masking tape. And the contents? “Less than Rp2 billion,” an
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