... had taken steps to uphold the law. We realized that there had been violation of criminal code by Bank Century... "Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Vice President Boediono announced that Bank Indonesia (BI) had taken legal action against the owners of the ailing Bank Century for violating criminal code when he was the central banks governor from 2008 to 2009.
"We had taken steps to uphold the law. We realized that there had been violation of criminal code by Bank Century. Therefore, on November 20, 2008, the BI board of governors agreed to impose an overseas travel ban on payment service providers," Boediono announced in a session of the anticorruption court here on Friday.
Boediono was questioned in the anticorruption court as a witness in the case against the former deputy Bank Indonesia governor for monetary and foreign exchange management, who had been named as a defendant in a graft case related to the granting of short-term funding facility to Bank Century and the declaration of the bank as a failed bank with systemic effect.
The Bank Century owners were Hesham Talaat Mohamed Besheer Alwarraq and Rafat Ali Rizvi who had fled the country, while the other Bank Century shareholder Robert Tantular was still in Indonesia.
"Those who were still in Indonesia were subjected to an overseas travel ban while those who had fled the country must also be dealt with," he noted.
Boediono added that he had reported the legal case of Robert Tantular to the police on November 25, 2008.
"These are BI steps to uphold the law where the Bank Century owners are concerned. Later, on April 19, 2009, BI also reported other cases of banking criminal offenses to the police," he pointed out.
The legal steps were part of a joint action of the central bank, the attorney general's office, and the police.
Editor: Ade P Marboen
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