At last, police detectives complete Oki's dossiers
At last, police detectives complete Oki's dossiers
JAKARTA (JP): After lengthy investigations, city police
detectives have finally completed dossiers on the alleged role of
Harnoko Dewantono, alias Oki, in the killing of two Indonesians
and an Indian in Los Angeles.
Capt. Amhar, one of the interrogating officers, told reporters
yesterday that the dossiers will be submitted to the prosecutor's
office as soon as the venue for the trial, Los Angeles or
Jakarta, is decided.
"The only thing we're waiting for is the final decision on the
trial venue, which is still being considered (by the
government)," said Amhar, head of the planning division of the
City Police Crime Investigation Directorate.
The U.S. government has made an official request to Jakarta
for the expulsion of Oki in order to try the suspect in an
American court.
The 30-year-old is the main suspect in the killing of all
three victims: Gina Sutan Aswar, an Indonesian woman, Tri (Eri)
Harto Darmawan, his brother, and Suresh Mirchandani, an Indian
businessman, said Amhar, who was one of the four Jakarta police
assigned to collect information and material evidence in Los
Angeles last month.
It's strongly believed that the three victims were brutally
tortured and killed, with money as the motive.
A copy of the police findings on Oki's case seen by The
Jakarta Post said that Suresh was tortured and shot to death in
August 1991 and Gina was battered to death on Nov. 2, 1992 in a
garage in Kentfield Brentwood, while Eri was beaten viciously at
an apartment on Palm Boulevard several days after Gina's death.
The killing of Suresh allegedly took place a few days after he
and Oki failed to reach an agreement on the purchase of Oki's
laundry business. No further reports on how Gina and Eri were
killed were available.
The decomposing bodies of the three victims had been kept in U
Haul storage locker No. 109 in Northridge since May, 1993, before
being found by the warehouse owner in August last year.
Previously, the bodies were hidden at separate locations. The
body of Gina was kept at a public storage facility on Van Nuys
Boulevard immediately after she was killed.
In a report made by the Los Angeles police, the bodies of Gina
and Eri were completely clothed, while Suresh's body was clad
only in underwear and socks.
All three bodies had severe wounds, especially to the heads.
One of Gina's ears was missing, while Suresh's lungs, heart
and part of his abdomen and skeleton were missing.
In a related development, two visiting LAPD detectives left
Jakarta yesterday for Los Angeles after completing their
investigation. They arrived here early last week.
"All information we got here is no different than what we've
found in Los Angeles," Ted Ball, one of the detectives, told
reporters after paying a courtesy call to City Police Chief Brig.
Gen. Dibyo Widodo. (bsr)