Attack on lawyer probed
Attack on lawyer probed
JAKARTA (JP): Police have started investigating an assault on Andi Hakim, lawyer of the second wife of the late Nyo Beng Seng, an entertainment businessman brutally murdered in April last year.
"I have ordered city police to start investigations and to find the motive behind the attack, without waiting for a report from the victim," Deputy to National Police Chief Maj. Gen. Koesparmono Irsan said yesterday.
Andi Hakim, 40, was attacked on Sunday afternoon by four unidentified men, who asked the lawyer to hand over his Rolex wristwatch and glasses.
He received at least 14 wounds and is now being treated at Husada hospital.
The suspects, riding on two motorcycles, left the scene of the crime immediately after Andi screamed for help.
Andi is the lawyer for Tuti, whose husband Beng Seng, alias Darmansyah Suyadi, 57, was killed in front of her mansion at Jl. Pluit Kencana Raya 128, North Jakarta, on April 15 last year by at least four masked men.
Police found a total of 12 stab wounds in his body, including his chest, arms and thigh.
The four suspects as well as three other people believed to be involved in the killing have been arrested. But police are still looking for the man behind the crime, who is believed to have hired the murderers.
According to Andi, he, together with his wife and their three children were looking at a building on Jl. Pekojan Barat 30, Tambora, West Jakarta, which Andi planned to use for his new office.
As they got out of the family's BMW sedan, the four unidentified assailants suddenly came by and pointed their weapons at the lawyer.
Andi said that the attack is the second in the past two weeks.
The first attack took place in front of his office on Jl. Kartini Raya, Central Jakarta, in which he was also mobbed by four unidentified people.
At that time, he was not injured as he was able to fight back with the help of two of his employees.
A detective at the West Jakarta police precinct, which handled the case, strongly believes that the suspects, who are still at large, wanted to kill the lawyer.
"If they just wanted to steal his belongings, why didn't they take them and leave?," he asked.
Police strongly believe the attack was made in connection with the death of Beng Seng. (bsr)