Case on Hindoro stays open despite his recent death
Case on Hindoro stays open despite his recent death
JAKARTA (JP): City police detectives are set to continue
investigating a Rp 900 billion bank scam despite the recent death
of the main suspect Hindoro Halim, an official said yesterday.
City Police spokesman Lt. Col. E. Aritonang told the media
that detectives were currently preparing dossiers of Hindoro's
alleged involvement in illegal commercial paper transactions in
an effort to net other suspects.
"We have other suspects connected to the bank scam case,
especially related to the selling of commercial papers worth
billions of rupiah.
"Aditya Halim, Hindoro's brother, was apparently involved in
the case and has been listed on the police wanted list.
"We still have several leads to solve the case and have found
evidence which supported the indictment of other suspects
involved in this matter," Aritonang explained.
So far, police have questioned 20 witnesses in connection with
last year's scam at Bank Perniagaan.
Hindoro, a former commissioner of Bank Perniagaan is said to
have fallen to his death from the eighth floor of Hotel Marbela
in Anyer, West Java, on Monday last week.
Hindoro's body was reportedly scheduled to be buried by his
family today at Gunung Sindur Cemetery in Bogor, as stated in an
announcement in Kompas daily on Tuesday.
His funeral had been postponed several times without
explanation, while the police declared his death a pure accident
last week.
Meanwhile, city police detectives yesterday started to probe
another bank scam case, involving hundreds of billions of rupiah,
allegedly involving a director of a private firm producing steel
items.
Deputy chief of the city police detective unit, Lt. Col. Bakat
Purwanto, refused to give details other than to identify the
suspect as TBH, 56, and his firm as CV WMI.
"This case is related to the misappropriation of letters of
credit (L/C) acquired from several private banks, including Bank
Prima Express," Bakat said.
"But please wait for further details as our investigation has
yet to be fully completed," he told the media. (edt)