Dicky's special privilege suspended
Dicky's special privilege suspended
JAKARTA (JP): The Cipinang penitentiary has officially suspended special privileges granted to former banker Dicky Iskandar Di Nata following an allegation of sexual harassment against a woman he worked under a reassimilation program.
The head of the Cipinang penitentiary, Mintardjo said on Tuesday that he had reported the suspension of Dicky's privileges to Minister of Justice Oetojo Oesman.
"The reassimilation program could be permanently revoked and Dicky could be charged with a criminal offense if he is found guilty in the sexual harassment case," Mintardjo said.
Dicky has served almost five years of an eight-year jail term for abusing his power as vice president of Bank Duta and manipulating the bank's funds.
He had been allowed to leave the prison between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. under the reassimilation program before reports of sexual harassment were made public about two weeks ago.
Mintardjo said Dicky will get a sentence reduction of five months on Aug. 17 this year and might be a free man on July 7, 1997, if he does not transgress again.
On Jan. 29, a staffer at a securities company, Titi Wulandari Prihatini, 27, filed a lawsuit against Dicky saying that the former vice president of Bank Duta has sexually assaulted her three times.
Titi's lawyer, Ruhut Sitompul, said that the first incident took place at the Equatorial Hotel in Central Jakarta late in the evening of Nov. 13, when Dicky allegedly gave the woman an unidentified pill to make her unconscious.
Sitompul said she was saved by a telephone ringing, which woke her, and managed to kick Dicky, put her clothes on and run out of the hotel room.
About a month later Dicky visited her at her office, PT Mesan Investama Utama in the Setiabudhi Building I on Jl. Rasuna Said, the lawyer said. "Dicky tried to hug and kiss her," Ruhut said.
On Jan. 11, Dicky met Titi at the same office and again attempted to kiss her.
Sitompul also questioned why the police permitted Dicky to violate his special privilege of leaving the Cipinang penitentiary between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m.
"My client told me that most of the incidents took place after 6 p.m.," he said.
Dudung Nurhadi, a guard on duty on Jan. 11, has been questioned about Dicky's whereabouts that evening.
Dicky, through his lawyer Henry Yosodiningrat, has denied the allegations, saying the woman fabricated the story for the police and the press.
Dicky also filed a lawsuit against Titi with the City Police on Feb. 1.
Mintardjo said that the Inspectorate General of the Ministry of Justice and the City Police had investigated the allegation. "But, we have received no reports of their findings yet."
He said that his office is also probing the case. (imn)