Asia Times: Lawmakers to resume probe into Bank Bali scandal



	November 5, 1999	atimes.com

Southeast Asia

Lawmakers to resume probe into Bank Bali scandal

JAKARTA - The House of Representatives (DPR) will resume its investigation of the Bank Bali scandal through a joint team of two of its commissions and bring it to a legal settlement, a House member said here Wednesday.

Sukowalujo Mintohardjo, chairman of House Commission IX (state finance and budget affairs), said the team would consist of his commission and House Commission II dealing with home and legal affairs.

His commission had received a copy of the complete report on the audit conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers in which a number of names were mentioned, he said, but the investigation team might not summon all the people listed in the report. ''The important thing is that the investigation by the joint team will lead to a legal settlement. Therefore, we might ask some representatives of the Attorney General's Office (AGO) to attend the team's meetings,'' Mintohardjo said. The investigation by the joint team would not interfere with those scheduled by the AGO or the police, he said, adding that the probes by the different agencies could well take place simultaneously.

Another House Commission IX member, Eki Syahruddin, said the joint team should not repeat the work already done by a special committee formed by the House of Representatives that existed before the present house was formed. The present house membership is based on the results of the June 7, 1999 general election and started to function early last month.

''The investigation by the joint team must lead to a legal settlement of the case,'' Syahruddin said. Sharing that, Commission IX member Zulfan B. Lindan, said the team should not summon the people mentioned in the audit report. ''Let the AGO do it. The parliamentary team should focus on its own investigation and present its results to the Attorney General,'' he added.

Thirty-eight House members would sit in the joint team, namely 19 from each of the two commissions.

(Asia Pulse/Antara)

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