Alleged GAM arms supplier nabbed

Alleged GAM arms supplier nabbed

BANDUNG: Bandung City Police arrested a gun-and-ammunition
supplier for the armed separatist Free Aceh Movement (GAM) early
Sunday morning at his rented house on Jl. Terusan Kiaracondong,
an officer said on Monday.

The police confiscated 17,482 live bullets, six revolvers, a
pen gun, three magazines of FN handgun with 33 bullets, and 40
boxes containing 2,000 bullets of caliber .38, manufactured by
PT. Pindad, from the 30-year-old suspect Subhan Budiyanto.

Bandung Police chief Sr. Supt. Alex Bambang Riatmodjo said the
arrest was enable following police investigation into another
alleged GAM supplier Ali Mohammad, who was arrested on Tuesday
last week for his alleged role in supplying bomb materials and
guns to Ibrahim, one of the 25 suspects in the bombing at the
Jakarta Stock Exchange (JSX) building on Sept. 13. The bomb blast
left at least 10 fatalities and 25 others injured.

"So far, we suspect that their (Ali and Subhan) involvement
was purely business," he said, adding that the police also found
a safety box containing trading documents and a sum of money,
which Subhan said, belonging to Ali.

The arrest had added to the four people arrested by Bandung
police over allegations of supplying firearms and ammunition to
GAM, which is a violation against the emergency law no. 1/1951 on
illegal firearms possession. (25/lup)