Suspects named in jailbreak<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): Police yesterday named nine more suspects in
\ntheir investigation into the escape of businessman Eddy Tansil
\nfrom a Jakarta jail, bringing the total number of people under
\ninvestigation to 11.<\/p>\n
Police have earlier named Dulhadi, alias Dudung, the man in
\ncharge of prison warders on the night of Tansil's escape, and
\nSuwarno, another warder.<\/p>\n
City Police Spokesman Lt. Col. Iman Haryatna, said yesterday
\nall of the nine new suspects were members of a well-planned
\nconspiracy that facilitated the escape.<\/p>\n
"The new suspects, who include prison warders, porters and two
\nemployees of the prison's clinic, have different roles, but all
\nof them are believed to have received money from Tansil," Iman
\ntold The Jakarta Post.<\/p>\n
Tansil, the owner of the Golden Key business group, was
\nserving his 20 year jail term for corruption when he literally
\nwalked out of the Cipinang correctional facility on Saturday
\nevening.<\/p>\n
The 42-year old businessman was convicted in 1994 for
\nswindling Bank Pembangunan Indonesia (Bapindo), a government-
\nowned bank, of Rp 1.3 trillion ($620 million).<\/p>\n
Iman said Dudung has admitted receiving Rp 2 million from the
\nbusiness tycoon, which he then shared with his colleagues.<\/p>\n
A reliable source at the prison said that some of the 11
\nsuspects have been accused of counterfeiting medical checkup
\nforms and permits. Tansil escaped on the pretext of going for a
\nmedical checkup.<\/p>\n
The prison chief, Mintardjo, was believed to have also been
\nquestioned yesterday. Iman, however, said that Mintardjo had no
\nknowledge of the escape.<\/p>\n
Iman denied reports that Tansil had been recaptured. "As of
\nthis evening, the man is still at large," he said last night.<\/p>\n
Police sources said one of Tansil's children was under medical
\ntreatment in Singapore on the day Tansil escaped from the prison.<\/p>\n
According to East Jakarta Police Chief Lt. Col. Gories Mere,
\nTansil was driven out of prison by Dudung and his son, Indrajit,
\nto Dudung's house in Cipinang, East Jakarta.<\/p>\n
Dudung then returned to the prison while Indrajit and Suwarno,
\nDudung's subordinate who was waiting at Dudung's house, drove
\nTansil to the Kober cemetery in East Jakarta, he said.<\/p>\n
Tansil and Suwarno then headed to a place where Tansil met his
\nwife in Krekot and headed for the Holland Bakery on Jalan Gajah
\nMada in Central Jakarta.<\/p>\n
Nurdin Nursin, a former chief of the Cipinang penitentiary,
\ntold The Jakarta Post that Eddy Tansil had never been put under
\nmaximum security, a standard procedure which should have been
\nfollowed.<\/p>\n
Nurdin, chief of the penitentiary from 1987-1993 and still
\nfrequently pays a visit to the prison, said he had reminded the
\nalready sacked prison chief Mintardjo about the regulation, but
\nthe latter refused to listen.<\/p>\n
As the authorities are going all out in their efforts to
\ncapture Tansil, pressure was mounting on Minister of Justice
\nOetojo Oesman to resign as an admission of his responsibility.<\/p>\n
Yesterday, a group of 50 Moslem students staged a
\ndemonstration outside the Ministry of Justice demanding that
\nOetojo resign. "He holds the greatest responsibility for Tansil's
\nescape," one of the members of the Association of Islamic
\nStudents said.<\/p>\n
Oetojo took the demand for his head in his stride, saying he
\nunderstood that the students were furious about the escape of the
\nentrepreneur who recorded the largest fraud in Indonesian banking
\nhistory.<\/p>\n
"I can understand how they feel about Tansil's escape," he
\ntold reporters. "I'm feeling the same way. I am also so sad and
\ndisappointed because of the escape."<\/p>\n
However he did not indicate that he had any intention of
\nstepping down.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile Armed Forces Commander Gen. Feisal Tanjung promised
\nthat the authorities would stop at nothing to trace Tansil.<\/p>\n
"We'll hunt him down till we get him," Feisal was quoted by
\nAntara as saying at a gathering in Sidoarjo, East Java,
\nyesterday. "We'll get him...you (the press) don't know need to
\nknow how." (bsr\/imn\/14\/har\/01\/sim)<\/p>",
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