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May 30th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Located in the village of Desa Belalang in Tabanan, the home is around one
hour’s drive from Bali’s main tourist areas down narrow roads flanked with
paddy fields and terracotta Hindu temples.
“It’s a very expensive place,” said one officer as he filmed the
property.
The officer estimated the home – decked out with a plasma-screen TV, a
state-of-the-art fridge-freezer and with an empty bottle of Absolut Vodka
left on the veranda – was worth at least $300,000 (£192,000) on the local
market, a small fortune in Indonesia, where the minimum wage is around £100
per month.
Outside in the garage was a Yamaha V-Ixion motorbike. In the kitchen were
fluorescent pop-art portraits of Myra Hindley and Lee Harvey Oswald.
Dayu Ariani, 35, the maid and nanny now caring for their daughter, said she
was “very surprised” at the arrests.
Asked if she thought her employers were involved in drugs, she replied: “I’ve
never seen anything like that while cleaning up his bedroom.”
“She knows her mum is at the police station but she doesn’t know what the
problem is,” Ms Ariani said of their daughter who was whizzing around
the sitting room on a pink Snow White scooter. “Sometimes she asks and
I say: ‘She had a small problem.'”
In April the couple enrolled their daughter at the Sunrise School, a Bali
primary school for expat children located around the corner from the
Kerobokan Prison where they are likely to serve time if convicted. Friends
said Ms Dougall was trying to set up a shoe company. Mr Ponder is said to
have been involved in property deals.
“Rachel was talking about starting a shoe business but complained that
she couldn’t find the leather she wanted here,” said one Bali-resident
from Brighton who drinks at the same pub as the couple. “We discussed
places where she might be able to source it, including Thailand.”
Another source close to the family said Rachel had been in “Cambodia or
Thailand” the week before Mrs Sandiford was arrested.
The couple’s lawyer, Mr Suroso, said their luxurious property was the fruits
of Mr Ponder’s work in real estate.
“It is logical for them to have a property like that,” he said. “There
is no proof yet that they are guilty. I am confident [they will be cleared].”
Of the other men arrested in the sting operation, one is an Indian citizen and
one-time Londoner named Akkinemi Mandagopal who has two young children with
his British wife.
The other is Paul Beales, a British “property developer” and 15-year
resident of Bali who has two young daughters with an Indonesian woman. He is
a close friend of Mr Ponder and Ms Dougall.
Speaking to The Times from his cell, Mr Beales denied being involved in drug
trafficking.
“I don’t know what I’m doing here. I’m scared,” he said. “This
is a nightmare.”
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