Oki investigation close to an end<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): Police revealed yesterday that their
\ninvestigation of the Los Angeles triple murder is almost complete
\nand that Oki has confessed.<\/p>\n
Deputy to National Police Chief for Operational Affairs Maj.
\nGen. Koesparmono Irsan told reporters that the prime suspect,
\nHarnoko Dewantono, alias Oki, has admitted killing all the three
\nvictims.<\/p>\n
The two-star general said that during the police
\ninvestigation, Oki gave a confession that matches the statements
\nmade by witnesses and the material evidence in their possession.<\/p>\n
Koesparmono, however, gave no details on how, why or when the
\nvictims were murdered.<\/p>\n
During a series of questioning sessions earlier, Oki, 30, gave
\ndifferent versions of his alleged role in the killing of Suresh
\nMirchandani, a man of Indian origin, Gina Sutan Aswar, a young
\nIndonesian woman, and (Eri) Tri Harto Darmawan, Oki's younger
\nbrother.<\/p>\n
Oki at one time told the interrogating officers that he was
\nonly responsible for the murder of Eri, who tried to shoot Oki
\nwith a gun. The two other victims, he claimed, had been murdered
\nby Eri earlier.<\/p>\n
On another occasion, Oki admitted to killing Gina and Eri, and
\nattributed the death of the Indian man to his brother.<\/p>\n
With Oki's latest confession, all that remains is the
\ngovernment's decision on the trial venue.<\/p>\n
Since the identification of the three bodies in December last
\nyear, Oki has been treated as the main suspect by the Los Angeles
\nPolice Department.<\/p>\n
The decaying corpses of the three victims, which police
\nbelieve were brutally murdered in separate locations and at
\ndifferent times, were found together in a storage locker in Los
\nAngeles in August.<\/p>\n
On Monday, the U.S. government, despite the absence of an
\nextradition treaty, formally requested that Indonesia extradite
\nOki.<\/p>\n
The request is apparently being studied by Indonesia's
\nMinistry of Justice.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, two visiting LAPD detectives were allowed yesterday
\nto ask Oki a number of questions via local police officers in
\ntheir latest attempt to determine Oki's motive for killing.<\/p>\n
Though unsure of what he was going to discuss, Jakarta
\nMetropolitan Police Chief Brig. Gen. Dibyo Widodo said he would
\nmeet with the two detectives at his office today.(bsr)<\/p>",
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