Suharto millions are staying here

Saturday 20th August 2011, 2:29PM BST.

Tommy Suharto outside the attorney-general’s office in Jakarta in 2007 where he answered a corruption case, which was eventually dropped.

THE Guernsey Border Agency’s chief officer has successfully appealed against a judge’s ruling that a Financial Intelligence Service decision was unreasonable.

In June 2009, the FIS refused to consent to instructions by Garnet Investments Ltd relating to a bank account it holds with the Guernsey branch of BNP Paribas.

It followed allegations of corruption on the part of Garnet’s sole beneficiary owner, Hutomo Mandala Putra (pictured)- known as Tommy Suharto.

BNP risked being in breach of Guernsey’s money laundering laws if it released the funds – said to be in the region of 37m. euros – without FIS consent.