Agus Isrok trial delayed over alleged fake dossier

Agus Isrok trial delayed over alleged fake dossier

JAKARTA (JP): A military court suspended on Tuesday the
hearing session of drug suspect Second Lt. Agus Isrok after his
lawyers told the court that they suspected a ploy behind the
police's investigation over the case.

Presiding judge Col. Sarman Mulyana said that he accepted the
lawyer's argument, which stated that the dossier submitted by the
police had been falsified, and fulfilled the lawyer's request to
adjourn the hearing until the following day to let the judges
resume their investigation over the suspected falsified dossier.

Initially, Tuesday's hearing was slated to include a reading
of the defense statement by Agus' team of lawyers.

According to one of Agus' lawyers, Lt. Col. A. Afandi, his
client never signed the dossier dated Oct. 4.

"The defendant was detained at his unit's headquarters in
Cijantung, East Jakarta, on Oct. 4 last year, and never attended
an investigation procedure at the West Jakarta Police station on
that day," he told the hearing at a military court in the Pondok
Kopi area, East Jakarta.

"Even if the police officers came to the unit's headquarters
for the signing of the dossier, Agus would have reported it to
his commander. The commander would then let us know of the
occasion," he said.

The dossier was signed by police investigator First Lt.
Asghani and Deky Setiawan, the alias of Agus.

Agus, a member of the Army's Special Force (Kopassus), and his
accomplice Donny Hendrian were arrested on drug charges by the
city police at a hotel in West Jakarta on Aug. 6.

In an effort to protect the names of his family and force,
Agus used the name Deky Setiawan.

Lawyer Afandi urged police to investigate the dossier.

"The police involved in the arrest were Maj. Sam Budigusdian
and Second. Lt. Sah Pattimura. But, suddenly, the dossier came up
in the hearing, without those names having signed the dossier,
but instead with the name of Asghani," he said.

Afandi therefore demanded the panel of judges resume the
examination of the police's dossier.

"Since we consider there was a ploy behind the filing of the
dossier, we ask the panel of judges to resume the examination
into the dossier and to consider the existence of the ploy in the
verdict," he said.

Prosecutor Maj. P. Simorangkir denied any ploy behind the
filing of the dossier.

"There was no ploy behind the filing of the dossier to the
hearing. All lawyers' objections must be lodged to the
institution which issued the dossier," he said, referring to the
West Jakarta Police.

The lawyers were scheduled to present the suspected falsified
dossier to the hearing on Wednesday, since the document was still
in the West Jakarta Prosecutor's Office. (asa)