Police nab suspects of brutal robbery<\/p>\n
Damar Harsanto, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta<\/p>\n
Police arrested on Tuesday six suspects in the robbery that led
\nto the death of Wisnani Safitri, 51, the wife of the secretary-
\ngeneral at the Ministry of Finance.<\/p>\n
\"We have captured six of seven suspects in this brutal
\nrobbery,\" Jakarta Police chief Insp. Gen. Makbul Padmanagara told
\nreporters.<\/p>\n
Makbul said the two prime suspects, Monte and Hilman, were
\napprehended in Jombang, East Java, and Bekasi respectively.<\/p>\n
One of them was an ex-convict, he added.<\/p>\n
Police seized Rp 8.2 million in cash, a sickle and a Kijang
\nvan from the suspects, Makbul said.<\/p>\n
Another suspect, Bagong, is still at large.<\/p>\n
Jakarta Police spokesman Sr. Comr. Prasetyo revealed earlier
\non Tuesday that the first four suspects, Toto Sartono, Surdiono
\nalias Didit, Joko and Cholil, were arrested here as they were
\nabout to flee to East Java.<\/p>\n
According to Prasetyo, the suspects were bandits who normally
\ntargeted bank customers making withdrawals.<\/p>\n
Wisnani, the wife of Ministry of Finance Secretary-General
\nAgus Haryanto, was robbed in front of her home in the Ministry of
\nTransportation housing complex in Rawamangun, East Jakarta, on
\nMonday afternoon. Witnesses said the robbers had tailed Wisnani,
\nwho had just drawn cash from the Lippobank branch on Jl. TB.
\nSimatupang in South Jakarta and the Bank Mandiri branch in Plaza
\nArion, Rawamangun.<\/p>\n
Upon alighting from her car, the robbers threatened her with a
\nsickle and grabbed her bag, but she refused to release it.
\nWisnani was severely wounded in the neck and arm following a tug-
\nof-war between her and the robbers, which ended with her being
\nbrutally slashed with the sickle.<\/p>\n
Wisnani died on her way to the Persahabatan Hospital in
\nRawamangun.<\/p>\n
She was buried in the Penggilingan Public Cemetery on Jl.
\nLayur, Rawamangun, on Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n
The robbers made away with a total of Rp 24 million. Wisnani
\nreportedly withdrew the money, which belonged to the Dharma
\nWanita civil service wives' organization, to fund a pilgrimage to
\nthe graveyard of Muslim missionary Sunan Gunung Jati in Cirebon,
\nWest Java.<\/p>",
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