+ Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The Swiss Federal Court ruled Geneva authorities could seize bank accounts that were opened over two decades ago in the name of Hashim and his wife Anie — holding a combined amount of nearly $500,000 (CHF423,000) — in an effort to recover tax dues, according to a recently published judgment. The seizure is part of a decades-long effort by Swiss authorities to recover hundreds of millions of dollars from the couple who incurred the dues when they lived in Geneva for over seven years from the late 1990s. As of April 2024, the couple was jointly liable for CHF131.
2 million ($154.2 million), according to canton Geneva. The developments in Switzerland come just as Prabowo is set to take over the Indonesian presidency in less than a month.
Hashim, 70, is one of Prabowo’s closest advisers and an influential businessman with interests across mining, agriculture and renewable energy. Hashim and Anie have argued that they could not pay the tax dues because they were insolvent, having spent hundreds of millions of dollars bailing out Prabowo’s business and funding his election campaigns. They also argued they were divorced, in what was seen by the courts as a claim to get out of tax obligations.
The Swiss federal court, in a December 2023 judgment, dismissed claims of insolvency and separation. The bank accounts are the second group of assets belonging to Hashim’s family that Swiss authorities have targeted. Geneva o.