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Indonesia’s Nazaruddin mess
By Asia Sentinel Mon, Aug 22, 2011 9:30PM UTC 0 CommentAllegations of corruption tarnish the ruling party but the trail leads everywhere and nowhere, reports Asia Sentinel An extraordinary letter apparently written last week by Muhammad Nazaruddin, the former fugitive and onetime treasurer of Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s Democratic Party, is shaking the country’s politics to the core ahead of 2014 national elections. The...
Questions over Nazaruddin’s Return to Indonesia
By Asia Sentinel Mon, Aug 15, 2011 10:43PM UTC 0 CommentWas the planeload of officials with him trying to work out a deal to shut him up? Muhammad Nazaruddin, the fugitive former treasurer of the Democrat Party led by Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, arrived in Jakarta Saturday aboard a 12-passenger Gulfstream jet that for unknown reasons stopped six times en route from Bogota, Colombia...
Former Indonesian lawmaker arrested in Colombia
By AP News Wed, Aug 10, 2011 6:38PM UTC 0 CommentBOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A former treasurer of Indonesia’s governing Democratic Party wanted on fraud charges in his homeland was arrested in Colombia carrying another person’s passport, the chief Colombia’s judicial police said Tuesday…. Muhammad Nazaruddin, a former national lawmaker, was arrested Saturday night after arriving in the Caribbean city of Cartagena on a charter...
Indonesia’s fugitive former treasurer found?
By Asia Sentinel Tue, Aug 09, 2011 7:30PM UTC 0 CommentNazaruddin found in Colombia, reports Asia Sentinel Muhammad Nazaruddin, the fugitive former treasure of Indonesia’s Democrat Party, is believed to have been arrested in Cartagena, Colombia, Djoko Suyanto, the coordinating minister for political, legal and security affairs announced Monday. If indeed it is Nazaruddin, who was said to be traveling on a fake passport under...
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