Pengguna:Jeromi Mikhael/Tempat Pembuangan Pranala

Aspri Presiden Bidang Keuangan, 1965 - 26 jan 1974[1]

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Dirut Bank Windu Kencana[1]

Direktur Seulawah/Mandala Airlines[1]

Direktur Duta Nusantara[1]

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THE HAGUE, Thursday

A businessman from The Hague yesterday came to the short end in court in this city after exactly four years of litigation against a corrupt Indonesian general.

The court rejected the claim of 62-year-old Arnold David, in favor of General Soerjo Wirjohadiputro, one of President Suharto's closest associates until last summer.

The president of the third council chamber of the Hague court, mr. A. H. Lycklama, agreed afterwards with a statement made years ago by the Indonesian Minister of Finance. Dr Ali Wardana. This statement — and not a declaration originally requested by the Indonesian head of state himself — saved General Soerjo's head.

Start of the process: more than four hundred thousand in arrears (with interest on it, a little under half a million guilders), which David demanded from his unwilling Indonesian "Goliath", the aforementioned general.

Soerjo gave the businessman a written order in 1966 to track down bribes and corruption money on behalf of the Indonesian government, which Indonesian officials had negotiated during the Sukarno years for their mediation in orders for European business.

The detective managed to get his finger on several millions in corrupt transactions with West German and Dutch businessmen. Some transactions fell under the so-called "Luns-credit" of 100 million from 1964. The overcalculated — over-charges of more than 50 percent were readily charged — was intended to be silently transferred to secret Swiss bank accounts of the Indonesian "decorators".

David had the suppliers deposit it into an account opened for that purpose at the Indonesian Overseas Bank in Amsterdam.

The businessman himself, who came from Java, discovered after a while that his client regarded the bank account in question as his private bank account, instead of as a "conduit" to the Indonesian treasury. Furthermore, it soon became apparent that General Soerjo did not intend to. was to keep his agreement that David's fee should be paid.

In the summer of 1969, David therefore had the controversial bank account seized, which turned out to be used for all kinds of shady transactions. The balance of 848,000 guilders — meanwhile increased to nine tons — was more than sufficient for the claim of more than 400,000 guilders, which the businessman believed he could make on General Soerjo.

David's lawyer has expressed deep regret in the court of The Hague that General Soerjo, even with the — twisted — Indonesian naming of the account in Amsterdam, was out to put the traced corruption money into his own pocket.

David, meanwhile, argued that President Suharto had made a mess by appointing what he believed to be a thoroughly corrupt person as chief of the state team "Pekuneg", which was tasked with detecting and recovering corruption funds abroad.

Two years ago, Minister Wardana issued a written statement. that Soerjo had operated on behalf of the Indonesian government — so not for its own account. David continued to press for a statement from "the highest competent Indonesian authority", but Soerjo's Amsterdam lawyer, mr. J. R Voute - also chairman of the friendship association Netherlands-Indonesia - never succeeded in making such a statement from President Suharto to the court. The latter has now been satisfied with Wardana's statement.

Businessman David — who has now cost 35,000 guilders for the trial, including the court-imposed 10,000 guilders — will almost certainly appeal. His lawyer, TRH Vreede from Bussum: "A court hearing can take much shorter. After all, we only fight one point. What everything revolves around: the validity of Wardana's statement. The minister was completely outside of this issue: the team- Pekuneg was under the direct responsibility of the President."

David himself has the impression Eekregen that the court has tried to work out an extremely thorny issue with this verdict. "They deliberately wanted to pass this hot topic on to the court of appeal: if my claim had been granted, this would have meant that the court would substantiate my accusation that the general — a close friend of President Suharto for many years — has owned the Indonesian treasury for the necessary millions. scammed".

The general, who for a very long time was financial adviser to President Sukarno and later to his successor Suharto, is regarded in Jakarta as the "elusive man behind the scenes" of many shady transactions, in which in the past, sooner or later, the names of close relatives of President Suharto turned up.

After an article of 23 August 1972 in De Telegraaf/De Courant Nieuws van de Dag ("Suharto's family also involved in a major financial scandal? — CORRUPTION WOUND IS READY TO BREAK"), the general has largely lost his position of trust with the president. only on paper.

Soerjo is currently appointed president of a combination of large new hotels on Java and Bali.

  1. ^ a b c d Bachtiar, Harsya W. (1988). Siapa dia? Perwira Tinggi Tentara Nasional Indonesia Angkatan Darat (TNI-AD). Jakarta. hlm. 399. ISBN 9789794281000.