FORMER BANK CENTURY FUNDS FOUND IN HONG KONG, SWITZERLAND

Surabaya, Jan 26 (ANTARA) - Attorney General Hendarman Supandji said former Bank Century funds had been found in a number of bank accounts in Hong Kong and Switzerland.

"We have sent a team to investigate the Bank Century funds in Hong Kong and Switzerland," he said here on Tuesday.

He said the funds of the bank that was bailed out by the government in 2008 totalling US$650,592,005,942.000 in Hong Kong were kept at Standard Chartered Bank.

He said other funds totalling 406,000 Singapore dollars and US$388,845,415.00 were also found in Hong Kong.

With regard to the funds in Hong Kong the Attorney General's Office had already named two suspects, namely Hisam Alfaruk and Rafat Ali Rifki respectively British and Pakistani nationals.

Other Bank Century funds were found in Dressner Bank of Switzerland totaling US$220 million, he said.

"We have been working with the governments of Hong Kong and Switzerland. We are investigating it as a money laundering case," he said after inaugurating a high prosecutor's office.

He said after the investigation process is completed he would submit the dossiers to the police. "Let them be grouped with the case being investigated by the police," he said.

"Some of the funds are also kept in Dressden and Britain. We are still investigating them all. We are predicting it will be completed on January 28," he said.