---------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe?, send your mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body mail: "signoff indonews" need more help?, send your mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body mail: "info refcard" ---------------------------------------------------------- Suharto will not flee abroad, lawyer says JAKARTA, Dec 14 (AFP) - Former Indonesian president Suharto, under investigation for alleged corruption during his 32-year rule, will not flee abroad and wants to spend the rest of his days in the country, his lawyer told a weekly magazine published Monday. "I was born in Indonesia, took part in raising Indonesia, became part of Indonesia and I want to die in Indonesia. Do not worry that I will escape abroad," Suharto was quoted as saying by his lawyer Juan Felix Tampubolon, according to the magazine Gatra. Tampubolon said in the same interview that the former president had assured the authorities he would fully cooperate in the investigation into his alleged fortune. Suharto was grilled Wednesday for over three hours by a team from the attorney general's office that sought to establish whether the president was guilty of corruption and abuse of power during his rule that ended when he resigned in May. Many, including students, reformists and legal experts, have called for the government to slap a house-arrest order on Suharto to prevent him from fleeing abroad or tampering with evidence. They have also called on authorities to formally declare Suharto a suspect in a case of corruption, which would entail bringing him to trial, saying there is enough evidence to justify the move. They have cited the some three million dollars found in Suharto's bank accounts here, huge tax breaks given to a national car project run by his son, and millions of hectares of land found in the name of companies connected to his charitable foundations. The attorney general's office, however, has not said whether the former president would be declared a suspect. Tampubolon was one of the seven lawyers who accompanied Suharto during his questioning on Wednesday. bs/kw/td/jkb ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Didistribusikan tgl. 16 Dec 1998 jam 03:02:19 GMT+1 oleh: Indonesia Daily News Online <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.Indo-News.com/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
