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June 7, 2000
JAKARTA, JUNE 6 (AP) - Indonesia's central bank chief was under growing pressure to quit Tuesday after he was implicated in a widening political scandal. On
Monday the attorney general's office named Bank Indonesia Gov. Sjahril
Sabirin a suspect in the so-called Bank Bali case, which centers around
the illegal transfer of funds last year from an The scandal helped scotch then President B.J. Habibie's chances of re-election and led Indonesia's international lenders to suspend badly needed loans to the crisis-ridden country. Sabirin has denied any wrongdoing and has ignored repeated calls from the government to resign. Attorney General Marzuki Darusman Tuesday advised him to step aside. "I conveyed to the Bank Indonesia governor yesterday that being named a suspect brings legal consequences: namely being non-active," Marzuki told reporters.
Marzuki said his investigation into Sabirin was not politically motivated. "After several investigations, we found Sabirin's role in the Bank Bali case was much more significant than we thought before," Marzuki said. In a separate statement, parliamentary Deputy Speaker Muhaimin Iskandar predicted that the House of Representatives will advise Sabirin to step down.
He
said a special meeting of parliamentary leaders will be held on
the issue soon. |