JAKARTA (Yosefardi) – The Supreme Audit Board, also known as BKP, had on Monday (Dec 23) released its report declaring the Bank Century scandal, related to Rp6.7 trillion bailout, as the state loss.
The government had in November 2008 bailed out Bank Century, now Bank Mutiara (BCIC), to protecting its sistemic impact on the banking industry.
The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), meanwhile, is pressured to solve the Bank Century bailout case since 2010 due to slow progress of its investigation.
KPK has detained Budi Mulya and examined Lin Che Wei, the advisor to the Sampoerna family. Sampoerna is known as one of the largest depositors in Bank Century.
KPK detained Budi Mulya, suspect and former Deputy Governor of Bank Indonesia (BI), after an examination session held on November 15.
Several people, meanwhile, had already been sentenced including Robert Tantular, Hermanus Hasan Muslim (former CEO of Bank Century), Laurencius Kesuma (former CFO of Bank Century), Arga Tirta Kirana (former legal division head of Bank Century), and Linda Wangsa Dinata (former Senayan branch head of Bank Century).
Unfortunately, businessman Budi Sampoerna, former President Commissioner of HM Sampoerna, who is believed as a key witness in the case, had passed away in Premier Surabaya Hospital, East Java at August 8, 2011 due to a diagnosed cancer.