Police arrest Tommy's private bodyguard<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): The City Police arrested on Saturday the private
\nbodyguard of fugitive Hutomo \"Tommy\" Mandala Putra over the
\nillegal possession of a weapon.<\/p>\n
The arrest followed a pre-dawn raid on the luxurious house of
\nthe bodyguard, identified as Indra Hasan, in the Bina Lindung
\narea of Jatiwaringin, in Pondok Gede, Bekasi, West Java, some 20
\nkilometers southeast of Jakarta.<\/p>\n
\"Indra was arrested at about 3 a.m. on Saturday at his home.
\nPolice raided his house and found that he was illegally
\npossessing a Colt gun of .32 millimeter caliber complete with
\nfive bullets,\" city police detective chief of general crimes,
\nComr. Tito Karnavian, told The Jakarta Post.<\/p>\n
The suspect has been placed under police custody.<\/p>\n
Tito made no comment when asked about the reasons behind the
\nraid.<\/p>\n
Indra, 47, is director at Tommy's car company, PT Timor Putra
\nNasional (TPN). Born as Natsir Palembang and is originally from
\nEast Nusa Tenggara, Indra also runs Tommy's agribusiness firm,
\nPutra Timor Perkasa.<\/p>\n
The suspect will be charged with Article 1 of the 1951
\nEmergency Law on weapon possession, which carries a maximum
\npunishment of death sentence.<\/p>\n
Separately, city police chief of detectives High Comr. Harry
\nMontolalu revealed that Indra had been previously questioned by
\nthe Bekasi Police precinct over a similar case.<\/p>\n
When asked whether the arrest was part of the police's
\nstrategy to capture Tommy, Harry said: \"Police will keep on
\ndeveloping Tommy's case, of course by using various ways,\" he
\nsaid, without elaborating.<\/p>\n
The National Police is also scheduled to question Indra over
\nTommy's disappearance.<\/p>\n
Tommy, the youngest son of ailing former president Soeharto,
\nhas been on the run after President Abdurrahman Wahid turned down
\nhis request for a pardon early in December last year. The Supreme
\nCourt had sentenced him to 18 months in jail for corruption.<\/p>\n
The last celebrity case involving weapons was Soeharto's
\ndaughter, Siti Hutami \"Mamiek\" Endang Adiningsih, who walked out
\nof the Central Jakarta District Court on Dec. 18 last year, after
\njudge Asep Iwan Irawan sentenced her to a 30-day probation period
\nfor failing to report the loss of her gun. (01\/ylt)<\/p>",
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