Convicted banker returns to Indonesia from US
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Officials say a former Indonesian banker convicted of a more than $260 million fraud has been extradited from the U.S. to her home country and will begin serving a 20-year prison sentence.
A Jakarta district court sentenced Sherny Konjongian Saroha in absentia in 2002 for misusing bank funds that cost Indonesia more than $260 million. The former director for now-defunct Bank Harapan Sentosa, immigrated to the U.S. in 1999 and settled in California.
The American Embassy in Jakarta said in a statement Wednesday that Saroha was taken into custody in 2010 for failing to be truthful about her employment and arrest history on her permanent residence applications.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Adi Toegarisman of the Attorney General Office said that Saroha arrived in Jakarta early Wednesday.