Three officers charged with buying stolen car<\/p>\n
Abdul Khalik, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta<\/p>\n
The Jakarta Police announced on Wednesday there was sufficient
\nevidence to charge three police officers with receiving a stolen
\nvehicle.<\/p>\n
West Jakarta Police chief Sr. Comr. Safaruddin said Chief
\nBrig. Samsi from the Semanan Police station in Tangerang and
\nChief Brig. Budi Utomo and Adj. First Insp. Endang from the Lebak
\nPolice precinct, also in Tangerang, had been detained since
\nTuesday.<\/p>\n
The officers were detained after police questioned four
\nsuspects in the robbery and murder of an Express Taxi driver in
\nlate October.<\/p>\n
\"We have sufficient evidence that the three officers purchased
\na stolen car from an auto theft ring. We have detained them for
\nfurther questioning,\" Safaruddin told The Jakarta Post.<\/p>\n
He said the officers would face dismissal and jail terms if
\nfound guilty of the crime.<\/p>\n
Safaruddin said the officers would be charged under Article
\n480 of the Criminal Code on buying stolen goods. The article
\ncarries a maximum punishment of four years in prison.<\/p>\n
On Oct. 28, a factory security guard in Cikupa, Tangerang,
\nfound an unidentified body. The body was buried in Legok,
\nTangerang, but the next day the family of Sarino, a driver in
\nExpress Taxi's Bintaro pool, identified the body from a photo.
\nSarino's body was exhumed and taken to Cipto Mangunkusumo General
\nHospital in Central Jakarta for an autopsy last Sunday.<\/p>\n
On Monday, police said they had arrested four suspects in the
\nrobbery and murder. The four were identified as Cepi, alias Play,
\n21, Ropi, 21, Jubaedi, 21, and Dedi Hakeki, 30.<\/p>\n
Police said the suspects had admitted to robbing and killing
\nSarino before driving away in his taxi.<\/p>\n
All of the suspects will be charged under Article 365 of the
\nCriminal Code on murder in the commission of a robbery, which
\ncarries a maximum penalty of death.<\/p>\n
Hundreds of Express Taxi drivers demonstrated in front of the
\nWest Jakarta Police Headquarters on Monday to demand police
\ninvestigate allegations that several officers were involved in
\nthe robbery and murder.<\/p>\n
The police deny any officers were involved in Sarino's murder.<\/p>", "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/three-officers-charged-with-buying-stolen-car-1447893297", "image": "" }, "sponsor": "Okusi Associates", "sponsor_url": "https:\/\/okusiassociates.com" }