Copperfield on schedule after FBI raid

Magician David Copperfield has no plans to cancel his performances in Jakarta next week despite news of FBI agents seizing nearly US$2 million in cash from his Las Vegas warehouse, a promoter says.

However, Mitta of Buena Production, the promoter of Copperfield's Jakarta shows, said his Oct. 23 performance might be rescheduled.

""I can confirm David will come. But probably the show will be postponed. It could be on Oct. 23 or 24,"" she said.

According to Reuters on Thursday, the agents also took a computer hard drive and a memory chip from a digital camera system during Wednesday's late-night operation. The reports said the raid stems from an investigation in Seattle.

""We understand there is an investigation, are in touch with the investigators, and are respecting the confidentiality of the investigation,"" Copperfield's attorney David Chesnoff said in a statement cited by Las Vegas broadcasters.

The local CBS affiliate KLAS-TV quoted a source as saying the cash was stashed in a safe and that agents took the cash.

Copperfield, 51, whose real name is David Kotkin, is famed for stunts such as making the Statue of Liberty disappear and walking through the Great Wall of China. He is a regular performer at the MGM Grand hotel in Las Vegas.