Thread: News Stories
View Single Post
Old 2011-08-16, 18:30   Link #15836
Xellos-_^
Not Enough Sleep
 
 
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: R'lyeh
Age: 48
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/...rJJ_story.html

TANGERANG, Indonesia — Irzen Octa, a down-on-his-luck Indonesian businessman, suffered a torment familiar to millions of Americans struggling with debts racked up in better times: He feared losing his home.

In the end, he managed to keep the ramshackle two-story house where he and his wife raised their two, now-teenage daughters. Instead, Octa lost his life, pursued by Citibank over a $5,700 debt on his platinum credit card.

The 50-year-old businessman, invited to a Citibank office in Jakarta in late March, collapsed in a tiny room set aside by the U.S. bank for questioning of deadbeat debtors. He died shortly afterward — a casualty of a “harsh interrogation,” said Jakarta police spokesman Baharudin Djafar.

Citibank, Indonesia’s biggest foreign bank, said its internal investigation found no evidence of physical violence.



i am beginning to think, maybe it wasn't good idea to bail these guys out.
__________________
Xellos-_^ is offline