A diplomat may be only a cookie pusher, but the kind of cookies pushed by Indonesia's charge d'affaires in Copenhagen tumbled, not crumbled. Last week Danish police announced that Gustin Santawirja not only ran his country's embassy, until he returned home last August, but was also a procurer on the side.
Santawirja got into the tart trade in 1961 when Indonesia's President Sukarno showed up in Copenhagen on an unofficial visit. Amiably, he rounded up some girls for the visiting entourage. So successful was the venture that he decided to supplement his entertainment allowance by running a fulltime poule hall....
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