Witness says defendant lied in fake money case<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): A police witness said on Thursday that Junie, a
\ndefendant in the Rp 19.2 billion (US$2.1 million) counterfeit
\nmoney case, had given false testimony during the initial court
\nhearing.<\/p>\n
She told the court she had no idea that counterfeit money was
\nbeing made until one week before she quit, Sr. Insp. R. Umar
\nFaroq of the National Police Detectives for counterfeit money
\ncrimes said.<\/p>\n
\"Three of the 10 defendants -- A Khui, Ismail Putra and Eddy
\nKereh -- told police detectives during questioning that Junie
\nknew the defendants were going to print money before they got
\ninto the business,\" he told the hearing at Central Jakarta
\nDistrict Court, which was presided over by judge Rasadi Salmun.<\/p>\n
Umar said Ismail had told him and other police detectives that
\nthe quality of the first print was bad.<\/p>\n
\"A Khui, Ismail and Eddy said Junie was in charge of sorting
\nthe bad banknotes from the good right from the start. She would
\nalso join Eddy and Ismail, they said, in destroying the bad
\nbanknotes by burning them,\" Umar told the court hearing.<\/p>\n
\"She was in charge of all the bookkeeping for any expenses
\nincurred in the production of the money. Evidence seized from her
\nGrogol residence on Feb. 29 proves that much.\"<\/p>\n
Junie rejected what Umar said in court about her.<\/p>\n
Ismail was arrested along with nine others at printing company
\nPT Jaya Abadi Prima in Palmerah, West Jakarta, in February and
\nMarch. The production and distribution of counterfeit money
\noccurred between July last year and February this year.<\/p>\n
In the initial hearing, Junie said Ismail had asked her to
\nhandle the bookkeeping for the business of printing confidential
\nstate documents.<\/p>\n
Junie said she ended up staying at the Palmerah house, where
\nshe worked in a \"locked room,\" doing the bookkeeping of \"the
\nmoney which was spent by Ismail\".<\/p>\n
There are two police reports on the testimonies given by
\nJunie, and each one gives a different account.<\/p>\n
In the first report dated Feb. 29, Junie told police that on
\nthe day she introduced Ismail and Eddy Kereh to another
\ndefendant, Yustinus Kasminto, they had discussed \"the big order\"
\nthat the group had received.<\/p>\n
\"The order was for printing rupiah banknotes, since Ismail had
\nthe paper for the K2 and K5 types. What I didn't know was the
\ndenominations of the banknotes,\" Junie said in the first police
\nreport.<\/p>\n
\"In July 1999, I was introduced to Ardy Sukarman (alias A
\nKhui) by Ismail and Eddy at Citraland Mall in Grogol. Ismail told
\nme that Ardy would sponsor the money printing project.\"<\/p>\n
In the second police report, dated March 21, Junie stated that
\nshe did not know anything about the production of counterfeit
\nmoney until a week before she left the business.<\/p>\n
Junie's lawyer, Donnie, told the hearing on Thursday that Umar
\nwas giving information based on what was said by other
\ndefendants.<\/p>\n
\"He doesn't even know if the Rp 50 million in counterfeit
\nmoney (evidence seized from counterfeit dealers Hendra and
\nHermanady) was printed at the Palmerah residence, does he?\"
\nDonnie said.<\/p>\n
Umar said after the evidence was seized from Hendra, he led
\nthe police to arrest A Khui, who later led them to Junie,
\nKasminto and then Ismail.<\/p>\n
\"I asked Ismail what the serial number prefixes on the
\ncounterfeit money printed at the Palmerah residence were and
\nIsmail recited all the ones that were used on the money seized
\nfrom Hendra and Hermanady.\"<\/p>\n
In a separate court hearing on Thursday, presided by judge
\nPoerwanto, the Central Jakarta District Court heard the testimony
\nof Sr. Insp. Yakobus, the officer who questioned defendants
\nIsmail and A Khui.<\/p>\n
Yakobus told the hearing that Eddy, A Khui and Ismail had
\ntried to print counterfeit money in Java, and had traveled around
\nPurwokerto, Muntilan and Yogyakarta for 15 days before returning
\nto the capital.<\/p>\n
A Khui then gave 14 reams of Super Omega branded paper to Eddy
\nKereh for safekeeping until they caught up with Kasminto through
\nJunie, Yakobus said.<\/p>\n
In a police report on Ismail, Yakobus asked him what reason
\ndid Tyasno (then chief of the military intelligence body Maj.
\nGen. Tyasno Sudarto) give him when Tyasno said the central bank
\nhad granted him a permit to print money for the Indonesian
\nMilitary.<\/p>\n
Ismail answered: \"The reason was that the central bank had
\nbeen forbidden by the Indonesian Monetary Fund (IMF) to print
\nIndonesian rupiah.\" (ylt)<\/p>",
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