Eddy Tansil, born Tan Tjoe Hong ( zh, , , poj=Tan Chu Hong, t=陳珠芳, born 2 February 1953) is an Indonesian businessman of

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who bribed his way out of Cipinang Prison,

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

embezzling Embezzlement (from Anglo-Norman, from Old French ''besillier'' ("to torment, etc."), of unknown origin) is a type of financial crime, usually involving theft of money from a business or employer. It often involves a trusted individual taking ...

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

Bank Mandiri PT Bank Mandiri (Persero) Tbk or Bank Mandiri, headquartered in Jakarta, is the largest bank in Indonesia in terms of assets, loans and deposits. Total assets as of 2022, were 1.992 Trillion rupiah (around US$133 Billion). As of 2022, Bank Man ...

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

Putian Putian ( zh, s= , Putian dialect: ''Pó-chéng''), also known as Puyang (莆阳) and Puxian (莆仙), historically known as Hinghwa/Hinghua ( zh, s=兴化, t=興化), is a prefecture-level city in Fujian Province, People's Republic of China. I ...

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. In 2013, Eddy Tansil's presence in China since 2011 was confirmed, and an extradition request 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. His nephew is

Rudy Kurniawan Rudy Kurniawan (born Zhen Wang Huang; 10 October 1976) is an Indonesian convicted criminal and perpetrator of wine fraud. He was found to be offering more magnums of the limited edition 1947 Château Lafleur than had been produced, and his Clo ...

, who was convicted of counterfeiting wine.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tansil, Eddy 1953 births Fugitives wanted by Indonesia Living people Indonesian people of Chinese descent People convicted of embezzlement People from Makassar