"Let the court reveal and prove Nazaruddin`s mistakes. The important thing is that Nazaruddin has already been brought back to Indonesia to answer the legal case that befalls him," the ambassador said when contacted from Jakarta by phone on Saturday night.
Dino said the Indonesian embassy in Washington had no knowledge of the stop-over in Washington of Nazaruddin during his repatriation from Bogota to Jakarta.
Earlier rumors had it that Nazaruddin, a suspect in a corruption case linked to the construction of a SEA Games athlete`s village in Sumatra, made a stopover for two days in Washington before flying to Colombia.
Other reports said that Nazaruddin spent two nights in Washington after he was arrested during his repatriation process from Bogota to Indonesia.
The rumors sparked speculations including possible special deals and the involvement of US agents in the Nazaruddin case before the former Democratic Party (PD) treasurer was arrested in Cartagena, Colombia.
"I have no information about it. So, we had better wait for the court," the former President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono spokesman said.
He said that up to now, no report had been filed at the Indonesian Embassy in Washington regarding the entry into the United States of an Indonesian passport on behalf of M Syarifuddin.
Every passport entering the United States had a US immigration stamp. So far no such passport on behalf of Syarifuddin was reported to have entered the United States, before and after his arrest in Cartagena.
"It is illogical for an Indonesian implicated in a legal case to enter the United States freely. The immigration system in the United States was sophisticated so that it would immediately detect the entry of a foreigner with a legal case," he said.(*)
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Editor: Ruslan Burhani
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