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)