Tue, 20 Apr 2004

Gunawan's mom goes to prosecutors

JAKARTA: The police have completed their investigation of Mulyati Santosa over her alleged involvement in making false identity cards for her son Gunawan Santosa after he escaped from Kuningan penitentiary in Cirebon, West Java, last year, where he was serving a sentence for embezzlement.

The police are expected to hand over the case to the Jakarta Prosecutor's Office on Monday.

During his time on the run last July, during which he allegedly plotted the assassination of PT Aneka Sarana Bakti president director Boedyharto Angsono, also his former father-in- law, Gunawan underwent plastic surgery and was carrying three different identity cards when he was arrested.

The police also have named Gunawan's sister Caca and nephew Andre Basuki as suspects in the forgery case.

Mulyati is now being detained at Jakarta Police Headquarters for allegedly smuggling into prison a pistol used in her son's foiled escape attempt on March 30. Gunawan attempted to escape while being transported from Salemba Prison in Central Jakarta to the North Jakarta District Court to attend his murder trial. -- JP