Caught in the Act

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

ALTHOUGH on parole, David Nusa Wijaya, convicted in a BLBI funds case, was still able to go overseas. On Friday last week, after the uproar over his departure to Hong Kong, two immigration officials were ordered to fetch him.

The Attorney General accused the Department of Justice of failing to coordinate the release of the former Bank Umum Servitia (BUS) head who still owes the state more than Rp1 trillion. But the Department of Justice refuted the charge. The Department, said Justice & Human Rights Minister Andi Mattalata, coordinated with the Attorney General’s Office (AGO) when David was to be released. So what actually happened?

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The summons from the Indonesian Consulate General in Hong Kong only contained an invitation to meet and talk with them, and that there was “something that they wished to convey.” With little or no preparations, and only wearing a black T-shirt and cream trousers, David was delivered to the consulate located on Leighton Road in Hong Kong by his younger brother on Friday last week. “He arrived at 11:20am, 20 minutes later then the time that w

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