Body of kidnapped victim identified

Body of kidnapped victim identified

JAKARTA (JP): Family members of a kidnapped victim identified
on Thursday a corpse at the Cipto Mangunkusumo General Hospital's
morgue as their brother, Mamat Suganda.

Mamat, a deposits department supervisor of Bank Universal, was
kidnapped by three unidentified men from the bank's parking lot
on Jl. Rasuna Said, South Jakarta, shortly after leaving the
office at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday.

Police are still investigating the kidnapping case.

"I am sure that it was my brother," Ica said on Thursday after
seeing the corpse. Ica and a number of the bank employees came to
identify the body on Thursday following a request by police.

Mamat's remains will be brought to his home town in Cimanggis,
West Java, after the hospital conducts a post-mortem examination.

The victim's body was found on Wednesday morning by police
officers in Cilincing, North Jakarta. His hands and neck were
tied by a rope and his mouth was gagged with tape. Marks of dried
blood was seen on his forehead.

The hospital's forensic expert, Zulhasmar Syamsu, said severe
concussion and a fracture in the skull might be the cause of
death which took place on Tuesday night, around 10 hours before
the body was found.

Ica said that his brother's abduction might have been related
to his position at the bank because Mamat neither had personal
problems nor enemies. "I am sure that it is because of some
problems in his office," he said, adding that about a week before
the abduction, the deceased had a row with a woman visitor at the
bank about some financial matters. (04)