AGO negotiates fees with Hong Kong for asset confiscation
Eny Wulandari, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Wed, 05/27/2009 2:19 PM
The Attorney General’s Office (AGO) is negotiating with the Hong Kong government over the possibility of paying them fees for confiscating the assets of Hendra Rahardja, who was convicted in a Rp 2.6 billion (US$251,083) graft case.
Deputy Attorney General Muchtar Arifin told journalists Wednesday that the office had agreed to pay fees to the Hong Kong government for their help in hunting down Hendra's assets in the country.
“We have yet to reach an agreement over how much money we will pay the Hong Kong administration. We expect they will not ask for much money,” he said after a website launching at the AGO.
In March 2007, the Central Jakarta District Court sentenced Hendra, who was the former president of the now-defunct Bank Harapan Santosa (BHS), to serve life imprisonment for misusing government funds under the Bank Indonesia Liquidity Support (BLBI) scheme.
The court also sentenced Hendra's son Eko Edi Putranto, BHS' former commissioner, to serve 20 years in prison.
Eko’s mother and Hendra's wife Sherny Kojongian, who is also implicated in the case, is still at large.
