Detectives go to S'pore to uncover Beng Seng's murder
Detectives go to S'pore to uncover Beng Seng's murder
JAKARTA (JP): City Police have assigned two senior detectives
to Singapore to find the man behind the brutal killing of
businessman Nyo Beng Seng last April.
"The detectives are scheduled to leave for Singapore this
evening," City Police Chief Maj. Gen. Mochammad Hindarto told
reporters here yesterday.
The two-star general would not give details on the city's
police mission, led by Lt. Col. Gories Mere, head of General
Affairs in the Crime Investigation Department.
"Mere [and his personnel] has a lot to do there," Hindarto
said.
Beng Seng, alias Darmansyah Suyadi, 57, was savagely stabbed
to death 12 times in the wee hours of the night on April 15 this
year by at least four masked men in front of his second wife's
mansion on Jl. Pluit Kencana Raya 128 in North Jakarta.
Nobody has been arrested as of today but many police sources
believe the killing was plotted by a rival gambling business.
Besides being known as owner of the Irama Tara cassette and
video recording firm, Beng Seng also owned a number of
nightclubs, massage parlors and beauty salons.
Hindarto told reporters that police were focusing their
investigation on two local members of the criminal syndicate
Triad gang, based in Hong Kong, for the gangland slaying.
He refused to further identify the two people but claimed that
they are both probably of Chinese descent.
"We believe the syndicate is trying to set up operations in
this country," Hindarto said, "but we've pledged to destroy the
birth of any such organization here."
The Triad gang has more than 50 well-organized networks
outside Hong Kong, stretching from London, Los Angeles,
Amsterdam, New York, Bangkok, Manila to Singapore.
Yorrys
When asked yesterday if the detectives in Singapore were
trying to collect information and evidence about the alleged role
of Yorrys Raweyai of Pemuda Pancasila organization in Beng Seng's
murder, Hindarto gave no clear answer.
"We don't have to be a priori, we work based on material
evidence available," he said.
Yorrys, day-to-day chairman of the Golkar-affiliated youth
organization, is currently in police custody for his alleged role
in the death of a servant.
Besides Yorrys, four other members of the organization have
been arrested in the same case.
According to Hindarto, the organization's chairman, Yapto
Suryosumarno, played no role in the servant's death. The servant
is believed to have kidnapped and killed the two-and-a-half year
son of his employer, who is secretary general of the
organization's branch office for North Jakarta.
"There has been no indication of Yapto's role in this case
thus far," he said Thursday.
Hindarto also confirmed that Yapto's 16-year-old son, Yedi,
may have been involved in the beating of the 23-year-old son of
Manpower Minister Abdul Latief and the 16-year-old son of a
retired Army lieutenant general.
The torture of the minister's son, who suffered serious
wounds, took place at the Hard Rock Cafe in the Sarinah building,
Central Jakarta, on March 21. Two of Yedi's friends were also
arrested for their participation.
Dossiers from the case, Hindarto said, have been submitted to
the City District Attorney Office.
Yedi, a high school sophomore, has not been detained due to
his age and health condition, police said.
He was once in police custody but was released on bail three
weeks later after coming down with dengue fever.
Days after being freed, Yedi and his private bodyguard, Yudhi,
tortured Adel Yohanes, the army general's son, at a pub in Hotel
Borobudur Continental. (bsr)