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        "id": 1517692,
        "msgid": "prosecutor-engineering-the-trial-defendant-1447893297",
        "date": "1997-06-04 00:00:00",
        "title": "Prosecutor engineering the trial: Defendant",
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        "summary": "Prosecutor engineering the trial: Defendant JAKARTA (JP): Eng San alias Hasan, a defendant at a murder trial in North Jakarta District Court, has said that prosecutor Andhi Nirwanto engineered the trial, where Eng San was the main suspect, to make him look guilty. \"The prosecutor has slandered and accused me of doing things I never did. He even accused me of faking my illness, neglecting doctor and hospital certificates which confirmed that I was sick,\" Eng San said on Monday.",
        "content": "<p>Prosecutor engineering the trial: Defendant<\/p>\n<p>JAKARTA (JP): Eng San alias Hasan, a defendant at a murder<br>\ntrial in North Jakarta District Court, has said that prosecutor<br>\nAndhi Nirwanto engineered the trial, where Eng San was the main<br>\nsuspect, to make him look guilty.<\/p>\n<p>\"The prosecutor has slandered and accused me of doing things I<br>\nnever did. He even accused me of faking my illness, neglecting<br>\ndoctor and hospital certificates which confirmed that I was<br>\nsick,\" Eng San said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecutor asked the panel of judges earlier to sentence<br>\nEng San to 14 years' imprisonment for provoking people to kill<br>\nNyo Beng Seng, his business rival.<\/p>\n<p>Eng San said the prosecutor's inability to present Kiki<br>\nArianto, one of three witnesses asked by the judges to testify,<br>\nto give an individual testimony proved the prosecutor was afraid<br>\nthat the truth would be revealed. All three witnesses had already<br>\ngiven written testimonies.<\/p>\n<p>\"I think the prosecutor was scared that if all three witnesses<br>\ngave individual testimonies, the trial would not turn out this<br>\nway,\" Eng San said.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, presiding judge Bhaedowie had asked<br>\nprosecutor and defense lawyers -- Sudjono, Teguh Samudera, and<br>\nHarjono Tjitrosoebono -- to bring in the three witnesses, Kiki<br>\nArianto, A Gu, and Hong Lie, to the trial, because their written<br>\ntestimonies were unclear.<\/p>\n<p>The three witnesses were also wanted by police for their<br>\ninvolvement in the murder case.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecutor and defense lawyers were unable to present any<br>\nof their witnesses due to a number of unclear reasons.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecutor said he could not find Kiki, who was believed<br>\nto be living in Bekasi, while defense lawyers were unable to<br>\npresent Hong Lie and A Gu because the two live in Hong Kong and<br>\nasked for a one-week postponement to prepare for their return to<br>\nIndonesia.<\/p>\n<p>Eng San told the court that Kiki and his friend, Leo Kartono,<br>\nare the ones who planned the murder.<\/p>\n<p>The defendant also asked the panel of judges not to be<br>\ninfluenced by the prosecutor's tricks. \"In the name of God I deny<br>\nand curse the sentence request, and I ask the prosecutor not to<br>\nslander other people without strong evidence.\"<\/p>\n<p>Eng San also said that he was once told by a certain<br>\nprosecutor to run away, but as Eng San refused to do so, he was<br>\nforced to face the current trial.<\/p>\n<p>Agiono and Atok, who were found guilty of murdering Beng Seng<br>\nlast August, are now serving 20-year and 15-year jail terms,<br>\nrespectively, while Tjen Piu, got nine years' imprisonment last<br>\nOctober for escorting the two convicts to Nyo Beng Seng's<br>\nmansion. (03\/12)<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/prosecutor-engineering-the-trial-defendant-1447893297",
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