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Elnusa's fund lost in Bank Mega

JAKARTA: PT Elnusa Tbk loses IDR111 billion deposit in PT Bank Mega Tbk. Elnusas Finance Director, Bank Megas head of branch office with four other suspects are now being arrested, including IHB, Commisioner of PT Discovery (AJ), President Director of

JAKARTA: PT Elnusa Tbk loses IDR111 billion deposit in PT Bank Mega Tbk. Elnusas Finance Director, Bank Megas head of branch office with four other suspects are now being arrested, including IHB, Commisioner of PT Discovery (AJ), President Director of PT Discovery (IL and RL) along with one unknown person.Elnusa just realized that it had lost such fund after the Indonesian Police required them to check and disburse the companys deposit in Bank Mega on 19 April 2011, said Elnusas President Director Suharyanto.When we with the police came to Bank Mega, the head of branch office confirmed that the fund was no longer available as it had been disbursed. We are shocked, he said in a press conference yesterday.Further, Bank Mega explained that the fund disbursement was allowed as it has followed the given procedures including fund disbursement request letter being signed by Elnusas director of finance and president director.Nevertheless, Suharyanto insisted that the disbursement is illegal and barely valid as Elnusa had no idea about this fund disbursement at all. The fund disbursement was approved after obtaining the signature of Elnusas Finance Minister, Santun Nainggolan and the former president director, Eteng A. Salam.Suharyanto is baffled why would the disbursement allowed using the former directors signature. As a matter of fact, Elnusa has announced the signature specimen of the new director soon after he is officially functioned.Further, he also questions the system and procedure applicable in Bank Mega. Elnusa has a clear procedure as we set the fixed standard operational procedure. A fund disbursement must be approved by commissioners. The director of finance and president directors must also sign such procedure, he affirmed.Responding to this matter, Bank Mega claimed that this embezzlement case is merely a personal violation by certain individual, said Bank Mega Corporate Secretary Gatot Aris Munandar. The private lender has reported this case to Bank Indonesia.Gatot assumed Elnusas director of finance had embezzled the deposit fund particularly by investing the fund to the investment manager for his own sake. Gatot did not disclose any comments relating to Bank Megas involvement.Basically, he used the companys fund for his own sake by investing the fund in an investment management institution.Gatot explained that such crime was assisted by several parties and using Bank Mega as the mediator. In such transaction, he insisted Bank Mega has followed the given procedures.The case of customers loosing deposits is not the first one in Bank Mega. Prior to this, one of Bank Megas customer, Denny lost IDR5 billion deposit in Bank Mega branch office Kramat, Central Jakarta.Barely realizeSuharyanto said that the company did not realize the case as it still receives the deposit interest revenue until March 2011.The fund has been placed in Bank Mega, Jababeka, Cikarang Bekasi since 7 September 2009, reaching IDR161 billion, consisting of five deposit slips maturing in 1-3 months. At the moment, the deposit totaled IDR111 billion as IDR50 billion had been disbursed on 5 March 2010.The police are still investigating this case by inspecting Head Branch Office of Bank Mega Jababeka, Cikarang and Finance Director of Elnusa, Santun Nainggolan.Referring to Elnusas official website, Santun joined Elnusa since May 2009 or four months before the company put IDR161 billion into deposit.Elnusas board of commissioners is now temporarily suspending Santun to ease the investigation process. At the moment, Lucy Sycilia, Director of Human Resources and General Affairs serves as the Finance Director.Lucy unveiled that this case shall not influence the companys cash flow as it happens to be an idle reserve fund.Director of Indonesia Stock Exchange Eddy Sugito plans to call the management of Elnusa and Bank Mega to gain more information on this matter. (T02/NOM)

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