Mystery still shrouds Nyo Beng Seng murder<\/p>\n
By K. Basrie<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): After seven months of hard work, city police
\nannounced they have arrested two street criminals believed to
\nhave been involved in the killing of entertainment businessman
\nNyo Beng Seng.<\/p>\n
Yesterday a reliable police source said the two alleged
\ncriminals, identified as Sudartono, 40 and Agiono, 36, were
\narrested by two plain-clothes detectives just after disembarking
\nfrom a Singapore flight at the Soekarno-Hatta International
\nAirport Thursday evening.<\/p>\n
Police are still in the dark about the ring leader and the
\nmotive of the murder. They are now looking intensively for two
\npeople believed to have been directly responsible for killing
\nBeng Seng<\/p>\n
A number of senior police officers interviewed by The Jakarta
\nPost yesterday confirmed the arrest but refused to be named or
\ngive further information. \"Information concerning the arrests is
\nthe police chief's privilege,\" said an officer at the Crime
\nInvestigation Directorate.<\/p>\n
City Police Chief Maj. Gen. Mochammad Hindarto was not
\navailable yesterday for further information.<\/p>\n
As of yesterday afternoon, the two suspects were still being
\nquestioned by detectives at the Crime Investigation Directorate.<\/p>\n
Soon after the arrest at the airport, the two were detained at
\nthe City Police penitentiary.<\/p>\n
\"We got quite an amount of information from these two,\" said
\none of the investigators. \"They admitted they were ordered (by
\nsomeone) to guard the site of the planned murder in order to
\nfacilitate the plan of the murder.\"<\/p>\n
Marijuana<\/p>\n
Sudartono, who is described as being fat, and his accomplice
\nAgiono, were first arrested on suspicion of drug possession.<\/p>\n
\"Based on this reason, we were then allowed, by law, to pick
\nthem up for questioning for their role in Beng Seng's death,\" the
\nofficer said.<\/p>\n
As of yesterday no further information could be obtained
\nconcerning the business activities of the two suspects in
\nSingapore.<\/p>\n
Last month two senior detectives were assigned to find the man
\nbehind the brutal killing. Local reports strongly suggest the
\ndetectives are focusing their investigations against one of two
\nmain suspects, who are Hong Lie and A Lay, both believed to be in
\nSingapore.<\/p>\n
Beng Seng, alias Darmansyah Suyadi, 57, was savagely stabbed<\/p>\n
to death 12 times in the middle of the night on April 15 this
\nyear by at least four masked men in front of his second wife's
\nmansion on Jl. Pluit Kencana Raya 128 in North Jakarta.<\/p>\n
Beng Seng's second wife, Tuty, told the police that on the way
\nto the hospital, her husband mentioned the two names as being the
\nplotters of his murder.<\/p>\n
Many police sources also believe the killing was planned by
\nrival gambling businessmen.<\/p>\n
Besides being known as the owner of the Irama Tara cassette
\nand video recording firm, Beng Seng also owned a number of
\nnightclubs, massage parlors and beauty salons and operated
\ngambling dens in Genting Highland in Malaysia, Christmas Island,
\nLas Vegas in the United States and Macao. He is also known as an
\nagent for local people who gamble overseas.<\/p>\n
Hong Lie and A Lay are also noted figures in the gambling
\nbusiness.<\/p>\n
Medan gang<\/p>\n
Hong Lie, A Lay and the late Beng Seng are of Chinese descent
\nand grew up in Medan, North Sumatra, before migrating to Jakarta
\nyears ago.<\/p>\n
The two detained suspects are also known as noted street
\ncriminals in Medan, police said.<\/p>\n
In an interview with Forum Keadilan magazine in Singapore
\nrecently, Hong Lie, 37, denied the accusation of Beng Seng's
\nwife, saying that he had no problems in his relationship with the
\ndeceased.<\/p>\n
On the other hand, Hong Lie strongly believes that Tuty had a
\nlove affair with A Lie (his name for A Lay) alias Leo Kartono,
\nwho then hired his employees, Kiki Haryanto and A Gu, to kill
\nBeng Seng in order to acquire the assets of the victim.<\/p>\n
Kiki Haryanto and A Gu are believed to be listed as the most
\nwanted people by the police in relation to Beng Seng's killing.<\/p>\n
\"The two fugitives are staying overseas,\" said an officer.<\/p>\n
Earlier, the key witness of the killing, Beng Seng's driver
\nSaman, 45, stated that he saw at least four masked men, all stab
\nand kill his employer. (bsr)<\/p>",
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