Indonesia seeks 59 mln dlrs from Tommy Soeharto

The case being brought by the government against Hutomo Mandala Putra Soeharto, known as Tommy, is seen as part of revived efforts to bring the Suharto clan to account, though analysts have expressed scepticism at the likelihood of its success.
Tommy is accused of overseeing a land swap when he was president of company Goro Batara Sakti (GBS), with the national logistics agency Bulog, in the 1990s. Bulog received a worthless swamp in return for a prime piece of commercial land that GBS built a hyperstore on.
"The plaintiff suffered material losses of 244.2 billion rupiah (26 million dollars) and immaterial damages of 100 milliard rupiah," said state prosecutor Yoseph Suardi Sabda, reading an indictment at the trial, which opened after mediation between the two sides failed.