THE meeting, planned well ahead of time, was held at Swissotel The Stamford in Singapore late last August. Paulus Tannos was scheduled to meet with anti-graft investigators who had come all the way from Jakarta.

The group of officials, consisting of investigators and detectives from the Corruption Eradication Commision (KPK), were already waiting for Paulus when he arrived in the hotel lobby. They commenced their meeting at a restaurant in the lux