Dossiers on West Java bombings completed

Dossiers on West Java bombings completed

BANDUNG (JP): Police handed over on Tuesday dossiers on ten
suspects in the Christmas Eve bombings in West Java to the
provincial Prosecutors' Office, a senior prosecutor said on
Wednesday.

Warman Suherman, who is in charge of general crimes at the
provincial Prosecutors' Office, told reporters here that the
dossiers were of Aceng Suhari, Iqbal, Oji, Ajo, Piping, Nana,
Karso, Pendi, Maman and Abdul Hadi.

Aceng, 59, was the key suspect in the bomb blast on Jl.
Terusan, Jakarta, on the afternoon of Dec. 24, in which four
people were killed, while Iqbal, 40, was the key suspect in all
of the bombings in West Java on that day.

According to the dossiers, Aceng and Iqbal violated Emergency
Law No. 12/1951 on possession and use of explosives. "The two
could be charged with the death penalty or a life sentence, while
the lightest sentence would be 12 years imprisonment," Warman
said.

"They are also charged with violating articles 55 and 56 of
the Criminal Code as they had ordered somebody else to commit the
crimes."

The other eight suspects are accused of hiding people, who are
wanted for criminal actions. They are subject to nine months
imprisonment.

Aceng and Iqbal escaped soon after the bomb blasts at Aceng's
building in Bandung and at other places in Pangandaran, Ciamis,
and Sukabumi. They were arrested in their hideout in the town of
Tegal, Central Java, early this month.

"We've studied the dossiers. Those of Aceng and Iqbal are
incomplete, meaning that the other eight are ready to be
transferred to the District Court for legal proceedings," Warman
said. "The police should complete the two dossiers within two
weeks, or else the questioning should be repeated."

In a separate interview, West Java Police detectives chief Sr.
Comr. Sardjono said police were continuing to hunt for the other
bomb suspects, despite the completion of the ten dossiers.

As earlier reported Iqbal claimed that a man identified as
Hambali alias Ridwan, who is now in Malaysia, was the mastermind
of the Christmas Eve bombings in West Java.

"We've sent two officers to Malaysia to cooperate with
Interpol to find Hambali."

Meanwhile, other dossiers of two other suspects in the bombing
case, Roni and Agus were just completed by the police after the
Prosecutors' Office turned them down earlier this month for being
incomplete. (25/sur)