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Article: Indonesian President Susilo's relative on trial for embezzlement
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- January 30, 2009
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Indonesian President Susilo's relative on trial for embezzlement
JAKARTA, Jan. 30 (Xinhua) -- Indonesian President Susilo Bamabang
Yudhoyono's relative by marriage Aulia Pohan underwent first trial
on Friday for allegedly involving in a scandal of embezzling over
100 billion rupiah (some 93 million U.S. dollars) central bank
funds.
President Susilo, whose administration has been scrambling to
fight rampant corruption since 2004, has said that he would not be
discriminative to treat those implicated in graft.
Pohan, the former deputy of Indonesian central bank, was tried
along with three others former top officials of the bank at the anti-