| Eddy Tansil | |
| Birth Name: | Tan Tjoe Hong |
| Birth Date: | 2 February 1953 |
| Birth Place: | Makassar, Indonesia |
| Charge: | Embezzlement |
| Penalty: | 17 years |
| Conviction Status: | Escaped May 1996 |
Eddy Tansil, born Tan Tjoe Hong (Chinese: ||poj=Tan Chu Hong|t=陳珠芳, born 2 February 1953) is an Indonesian businessman of Chinese descent who bribed his way out of Cipinang Prison, Jakarta, on 4 May 1996 while serving a 17-year sentence for embezzling $420 million in loans from Bank Pembangunan Indonesia, which subsequently went bust and was amalgamated into Bank Mandiri.[1] [2]
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.[3] Tansil's escape in 1996 was facilitated by corrupt prison officials.[4]
An anti-corruption watchdog, Gempita, determined in 1998 that Tansil was conducting business under a corporate license of German company Becks Beer in Putian, Fujian, China.[5]
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 Macau.[6]
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 renminbi (then $47 million) from the Bank of China, 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.[7]
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.[8]