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Munir murder probe aims at suspect's accounts
Eva C. Komandjaja
The Jakarta Post/Jakarta
A special fact-finding team said on Wednesday that the Financial
Transaction and Report Analysis Center (PPATK) was ready to help
examine bank accounts of suspects in the poisoning death of noted
human rights activist Munir.
Team chief Brig. Gen. Marsudi Hanafi said the promise was made
in a recent meeting with PPATK deputy chairman Brig. Gen. Susno
Duadji.
The pledged examinations of the accounts are aimed at finding
any suspicious transactions related to last September's poisoning
of Munir on board a Garuda Indonesia flight.
"He (Susno) has vowed to help us check bank accounts belonging
to four persons who may have been involved in the case, including
former Garuda president director Indra Setiawan," Marsudi said.
The team believes that there might have been money transferred
to those accounts, by the masterminds of the murder, as payment
for facilitating the poisoning.
"PPATK will examine their accounts and if there are any
suspicious transactions, they'll analyze them and submit a report
with us," he added.
The move comes after Garuda pilot Pollycarpus Budihari
Priyanto was officially declared a suspect by the National Police
for his alleged role in "facilitating" the murder of Munir, and
forging documents linked to the case.
Munir, cofounder of human rights watchdogs Imparsial and
Kontras, was found dead aboard the Garuda flight to Amsterdam on
Sept. 7.
An autopsy conducted by Dutch authorities found excessive
amounts of arsenic in his body, indicating that he may have been
given the poison on the one-hour leg of the flight from Jakarta
to Singapore.
Police were developing the investigation in order to obtain
sufficient evidence to charge other Garuda executives in the
high-profile case.
The fact-finding team has proposed seven names -- five Garuda
officials and two National Intelligence Agency (BIN) officers --
to the police, as persons of interest.
The five Garuda officials include Pollycarpus, Indra Setiawan
and secretary to Garuda's chief of pilots Rohainil Aini, who is
currently being questioned by the police. The remaining two are
former vice president of corporate security Ramelgia Anwar and
vice president of human resources Daan Ahmad.
"We suspect that Daan is also involved in the case since he
temporarily replaced Ramelgia during that time. We're now
investigating his track record," Marsudi said.
The team is scheduled to meet BIN officials on Thursday to
seek clarification on whether Pollycarpus was linked to BIN as
widely rumored, as well as to get information on two BIN agents,
who the police refuse to publicly name.
Separately, head of the police investigation team Sr. Comr.
Anton Charlian said that no links were found so far between
Rohainil and Munir's death.
Rohainil has been fielding questions for the past four days
after police accused her of lying about Pollycarpus' assignment
letter.
Investigators found that the letter was issued more than a
week after the flight, and that it was signed by Ramelgia Anwar
instead of the operational director, as is normally the case.
Anton said the police would summon the recently replaced Indra
Setiawan and Ramelgia Anwar for similar questioning next week.