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SBY's in-law Aulia Pohan corruption trial starts today
The Jakarta Post , Jakarta | Fri, 01/30/2009 8:28 AM | National
The Corruption Court is scheduled to begin the trial of Aulia Pohan, father-in-law to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's son, and three other former Bank Indonesia (BI) governors in Jakarta on Friday morning.
Aulia and the three other suspected central bank officials -- Bun Bunan Hutapea, Maman Soemantri and Aslim Tadjuddin -- will face the judges together as they are charged with the same crime.
Judge Mansyurdin Chaniago is the presiding judge in the case who will be assisted by judges Moerdiono, Hendra Yospin, Slamet Subagyo and Anwar. A team of 13 lawyers are expected to defend the four suspects.
The four were charged with allegedly helping to embezzle Rp 100 billion (US$8.8 million in today's currency) from BI's Indonesian Banking Development Foundation (YPPI) in 2003. The money was allegedly misappropriated to smooth the political settlement of a previous hefty loan scandal involving Bank Indonesia liquidity support (BLBI) funds and to push an amendment to the central banking law through the House of Representatives.
The case has already brought down several BI top names and lawmakers who have been tried, been found guilty, and are now appealing the verdicts. Former BI governor Burhanuddin Abdullah has been sentenced to five years in prison late last year for his role in doling out payoffs, which were never recorded on the books of BI or the YPPI.
Two former top bank officials, Oey Hoey Tiong and Rusli Simanjuntak, were each sentenced to four years in jail in October last year in the same case. Lawmakers Hamka Yandhu and Antony
Zeidra Abidin were sentenced to three and four-and-a-half years in jail, respectively, last month for accepting bribes from the BI fund executors. (dre)
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