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JAKARTA - AN INDONESIAN businessman on the run overseas from fraud charges has surrendered to authorities here after slipping back into the country undetected, a police spokesman said on Friday.
Marimutu Sinivasan turned himself in at Jakarta's National Police headquarters on Thursday after evading arrest for two years, spokesman Abubakar Nataprawira told reporters.
The spokesman later told reporters that police still do not know when or how Sinivasan, who was on Interpol's wanted list, re-entered Indonesia.
Police also do not know what country Mr Sinivasan was in before coming back, Mr Nataprawira said.
'He was reportedly sighted in Singapore and India,' he said.
Mr Sinivasan, who first contacted police by phone on Wednesday, was named a suspect in March 2006 in connection with a fraud case involving 50 billion rupiah in loans from two banks to a textile company he owned.
'He fled the country before the order banning him from leaving was issued on March 17,' Mr Nataprawira told reporters.
Mr Sinivasan was not being held by police because charges being considered against him only carry a maximum of five years in jail, Mr Nataprawira said. -- AFP
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