Thursday, December 13, 2012

KUA TO INVESTIGATE TSANDRA



Attorney General and Minister for Justice Kerenga Kua has ordered investigations into the granting of a naturalised citizenship to controversial Indonesian businessman and now fugitive Joko Soegiarto Tjandra.

Mr. Kua assured a top-level Indonesian Government delegation during a meeting in Port Moresby  (Wed 12.12) that the citizenship issue would be investigat
ion to determine whether administrative and legal requirements were followed when Tsandra was granted with a PNG citizen status.

Indonesia's Vice Attorney General Doctor Darmono led the delegation which included Indonesian Ambassador to Papua New Guinea, Andreas Sitepu.

Minister Kua also assured the delegation that the PNG Government would cooperate with the relevant Indonesian Government authorities to deal with the issue.

  Wednesday meeting is a follow-up of a request by the Indonesian Government in June last year, to have Tsandra arrested, detained and extradited to Indonesia to face the law for alleged official corruption between 1997 and 1998.

Doctor Darmono and his delegation discussed issues relating to allegations of corruption and a pending Supreme Court decision against Tsandra.

The Indonesian Government believes Tsandra had given false and misleading information to Customs and Immigration authorities in PNG to be granted citizenship.

Doctor Darmono and his delegation also re-submitted their government's request to the PNG Government for Tsandra to be extradited back to Indonesia.

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