Hold The Passport Of Texmaco Marimutu Sinivasan Boss, Immigration Thwarts Escape Via Entikong

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The escape of Texmaco boss, Marimutu Sinivasan, was thwarted by the Directorate General of Immigration at the Ministry of Law and Human Rights (Kemenkumham). Passports belonging to Bank Indonesia Liquidity Assistance obligors (BLBI) were then detained while fleeing to Malaysia via the Entikong State Border Post (PLBN), West Kalimantan on Sunday, September 8.

"Prevents him (Marimutu Sinivasan, ed) from going abroad via PLBN Entikong West Kalimantan. We hold our passport," said Director General of Immigration at the Ministry of Law and Human Rights Silmy Karim when confirmed, Monday, September 9.

After holding the passport, Marimutu was then examined by officers from the Entikong Immigration Office. This process is completed at night and further steps will be under the authority of the BLBI Task Force.

Meanwhile, Silmy said Marimutu was expected to flee to Malaysia via Entikong because she considered the guard not strict. "It turns out that the Immigration officers there are professional and the system operates well," he said.

"So that the plan can be thwarted," continued Silmy.

Marimutu previously dismissed companies that had debts related to BLBI. However, he agrees that there is a debt to the state.

This statement was later denied by the Minister of Finance (Menkeu) Sri Mulyani. He confirmed that the Texmaco company's debt was related to BLBI.

Texmaco, he continued, owed a number of banks before the 1998 crisis. Among them are BRI, BNI, Bank Mandiri, and private banks, which amounted to Rp8.06 trillion.