Eddy Tansil or Tan Tjoe Hong or Tan TJU Fuan (born 2 February 1953, in

Makassar Makassar (, mak, ᨆᨀᨔᨑ, Mangkasara’, ) is the capital of the Indonesian province of South Sulawesi. It is the largest city in the region of Eastern Indonesia and the country's fifth-largest urban center after Jakarta, Surabaya, Med ...

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) is an Indonesian businessman of

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who bribed his way out of

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, on 4 May 1996 while serving a 17-year sentence for

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$420 million in loans from Bank Pembangunan Indonesia, which subsequently went bust and was amalgamated into

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Criminal penalty

In 1994, Tansil was sentenced to 17 years in prison, fined 30 million rupiah, ordered to pay 500 billion rupiah compensation, and repay state losses of 1.3 trillion rupiah. Tansil's escape in 1996 was facilitated by corrupt prison officials.

After prison escape

An anti-corruption watchdog, Gempita, determined in 1998 that Tansil was conducting business under a corporate license of German company Becks Beer in

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. In 2013, Eddy Tansil's presence in China since 2011 was confirmed, and an

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was submitted to the Chinese government. In 2015, Tansil was reportedly residing in

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. Indonesian news website Tirto.id in July 2019 reported that Tansil had defaulted on a bank loan in China in 2002. He had reportedly borrowed 389.92 million

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(then $47 million) from the

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, putting up land assets and two factories in Putian as collateral, but failed to repay the amount and then challenged efforts to confiscate his assets.

Family

He is a brother of Hendra Rahardja, a banker whose loans to his own companies and his family's businesses were not repaid, resulting in losses of $264 million, and who died in custody in Australia during proceedings to extradite him to Indonesia.

References

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