Tommy wants fund moved to Indonesia

The Jakarta Post ,  Jakarta   |  Wed, 10/24/2007 4:19 PM

JAKARTA: Director of Civil Prosecution at the Attorney General's Office Yoseph Suardi Sabda said Tuesday that Hutomo ""Tommy"" Mandala Putra wanted to ""give away"" some of his funds -- but that Tommy wanted first to repatriate money from Guernsey, a British territory off the French coast.

Yoseph said he had discussed Tommy's proposal, presented at Monday's mediation meeting at the South Jakarta District Court, with the State Logistic Agency (Bulog) directors.

But he said he had not yet discussed the matter with Attorney General Hendarman Supandji.

""If approved by the Attorney General, we will start to discuss the possibility of a three-way discourse between Tommy, the government and the Guernsey court to seek a win-win solution of the case,"" he said.

Yoseph said the prosecution's main task was to convince the Guernsey court to let the Indonesia legal authorities continue investigating the case in Indonesia.

Yoseph refused to reveal the exact amount of Tommy's offer and or the rest of the proposal's content, on grounds of confidentiality.

Guernsey's civil court requested the Indonesian government in May to prove if Tommy was involved in any graft cases so the court could keep frozen the 36 million euro owned by Tommy's Garnet Investment Ltd and deposited at the BNP Paribas' Guernsey branch. (10)

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