Ex-marine steals to outdo brass<\/p>\n
BOGOR (JP): A former marine currently in police custody over a
\nRp 1.8 billion robbery that left two people dead has admitted
\nthat he robbed to prove to his former supervisors in the Navy
\nthat he could lead a better life than they.<\/p>\n
\"I am a former marine. My (former) senior often mocked me,
\nsaying that outside the Navy, I would be a vagrant. That
\nmotivated me to work really hard,\" Antono Dwi, 36, told reporters
\nat Bogor Police Headquarters on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Antono was dismissed from the Navy because he had two wives.<\/p>\n
He said that in 1995, along with his father-in-law, he opened
\na scrap business where he lived, at Gunung Putri, Bogor. At
\nfirst, he only bought scrap iron from scavengers but subsequently
\nhe handled scrap from the demolition of old buildings, located as
\nfar away as Magelang, Central Java, and Madiun, East Java.<\/p>\n
The business started to suffer when a building that he was
\nworking on collapsed and damaged three cars. He had to pay out Rp
\n45 million in compensation, which led him to bankruptcy.<\/p>\n
\"At that time, I was asked (to participate in the robbery) and
\nI immediately said 'yes,'\" he said.<\/p>\n
He admitted to receiving Rp 120 million from the robbery.<\/p>\n
However, he denied that he had killed the victims, saying that
\nthat had been done by one of his accomplices who is still at
\nlarge.<\/p>\n
Antono, who was arrested in Surabaya last week, was among 10
\nsuspects in the theft of Rp 18 billion that was transported from
\nLippo Bank to PT Great River in Bogor on Aug. 31. A police
\nofficer and a Bank Lippo security guard were killed in the
\nincident.<\/p>\n
Police have also arrested six other suspects that include two
\nsecurity guards from PT Great River.<\/p>\n
Three others, identified as Beny, Jacky and Henky, are still
\nat large.<\/p>\n
Antono said that the robbery had been planned two weeks
\nbeforehand. They found out about the transportation of cash from
\nLippo Bank to PT Great River from Adi Setyo, a security officer
\nat the company.<\/p>\n
\"I am really sorry. I beg the police's forgiveness for what I
\nhave done. It all happened because I had fallen on hard times and
\nwas worried too much about my families' future, but now I've
\nsimply destroyed it,\" he said. (21)<\/p>",
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