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Ten employees of Indonesia's State Audit Agency, known as BPK, were on board Lion Air's JT610 20 employees from the Finance Ministry were on the crashed jet.
BPK has been investigating the megacity development in Cikarang, West Java. There is a Clinton link.
Source "HAS CORRUPTION STALLED THE SHENZHEN OF INDONESIA?" October 19, 2018
The future of the US$21 billion real estate project, in Bekasi, West Java, is no longer looking so bright as allegations of bribery and corruption have engulfed its developers and stoked the concerns of investors and customers who have already put down an advance payment.
Detectives from Indonesia’s anti-graft agency this week arrested staff and raided the homes and offices of senior executives from Lippo Group, the Indonesian conglomerate behind Meikarta, which also has significant business interests in Hong Kong and South Asia.
“We are investigating suspicions of illicit money flow to accelerate or influence permit issuance, which is still under the local administration’s authority,” a KPK spokesman said. “So far, documents related to licensing by Lippo to the district government, financial records, and electronic evidence such as computers have been confiscated. The investigation continues.”
Lawyers for Lippo said they would cooperate with the investigation and added that there was no tolerance for corruption at the company.
Founded as Lippo Bank by Chinese-Indonesian businessman Mochtar Riady in the 1950s, Lippo Group has diversified and grown into an empire of private and public companies, extending from Indonesia to China, Hong Kong and Macau, the Philippines, Singapore and South Korea. The group now encompasses extensive retail, banking, media, and property interests, controlled by Mochtar’s two sons James and Stephen through separately listed companies in Indonesia and Singapore respectively. As well as a number of high-profile residential developments in Jakarta, the group also owns the Hong Kong Lippo Centre in Central.
Given the group’s large-scale and diverse business interests, it has never been far from controversy. Sindoro’s previous jail term was linked to him bribing an anti-monopoly-agency official on a matter regarding Direct Vision, partly owned by First Media, then a Lippo Group unit. The agency in August 2008 ruled Direct Vision had not violated any laws in a case related to television broadcast rights for the English Premier League between 2007 and 2010.
In 2001, James was fined US$8.6 million by the United States Department of Justice for violating federal election laws when he contributed to former US president Bill Clinton’s White House run.
A spokesman for James Riady confirmed on Thursday night that a search did occur at his residence in connection to the KPK investigation, saying “there were no documents/items found or seized in relation to the case. Mr Riady remains fully committed to assisting the KPK in their efforts as is necessary.”
Clintons and Lippo
“Corruption controversies have marked Riady’s business career. In the 1996 presidential campaign, James Riady was a major campaign contributor to the Democratic Party. In 1998, the United States Senate conducted an investigation of the finance scandal of the 1996 U.S. presidential campaign. James Riady was indicted and pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations by himself and his corporation. He was ordered to pay an 8.6 million U.S. dollar fine for contributing foreign funds to the Democratic Party, the largest fine ever levied in a campaign finance case. In 2008, Riady’s close business associate Billy Sindoro, an executive of Riady’s Jakarta-based First Media, was filmed handing bribes to officials of Indonesia’s anti-monopoly agency, the KPPU. Riady and First Media were then in a business dispute with a Malaysian company and the KPPU was deliberating that dispute. Sindoro was later found guilty of corruption. In December 2008, the Riady-owned Jakarta Globe published a sympathetic portrait of Sindoro in prison where he lamented he would not be able to spend Christmas with his family.” (source)
“The purpose of the contributions was to obtain various benefits from various campaign committees and candidates for Lippo Group and LippoBank, including: access, meetings, and time with politicians, elected officials, and other high-level government officials; contacts and status for Lippo Group and LippoBank with business and government leaders in the United States and abroad; business opportunities for Lippo Group and defendant LippoBank; government policies which would inure to the benefit of Lippo Group and defendant LippoBank, including Most Favored Nation status for China, open trade policies with Indonesia, normalization of relations with Vietnam, Community Reinvestment Act exemptions for LippoBank, a repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act which limited business opportunities for LippoBank, and a relaxation of Taiwanese restrictions on investment by foreign banks; the deposit of funds into LippoBank by political campaign committees and government agencies; and local government support for Lippo Group’s California property development projects which would in turn benefit LippoBank’s plans for expansion.”
Who needs spies when you can own a whole political party? Treason is a dangerous word, but, in essence, it means selling out your country to a foreign power. For cash or some other favor.
Riady was exhiled until 2009, when the Clinton’s used their influence to get him back into the U.S.
“Last year, however, the Indonesian mogul finally made it to Arkansas. He traveled there during the first of two previously unreported trips he made in 2009 to the United States. He was allowed in only after receiving a waiver from a rule that forbids entry to foreigners guilty of “a crime involving moral turpitude,” a term that government lawyers generally interpret to include fraud.
Riady’s return to the United States poses a prickly question for Hillary Clinton’s State Department: How and why did a foreign billionaire stained by Clinton-era scandals get a U.S. visa after being kept out for so long under the Bush administration?“
Curious how much Chinese Communist money is running Hillary Clinton’s campaign for President? Just go back and look at Bill Clinton’s campaign.
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Archived sources : http://archive.is/wk748 and http://archive.is/BEINw
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Good find OP. I linked this to another post on the crash.
Maybe this is like the faux FF attacks and there's clues to us. Let's see what we can find.