Luxury cars taken from police HQ

Luxury cars taken from police HQ

MATARAM, West Nusa Tenggara: Brig. Gen. Farouk Muhamad, chief
of the West Nusa Tenggara Provincial Police, was angered by the
disappearance of three luxury cars seized from an East Timor
businessman several months ago.

"I have no idea about how the cars, famous makes like Land
Cruiser and Mercedez Benz, could have been stolen from the
provincial police headquarters. I want the cars returned soon
because they are still the subject of a police investigation," he
said here on Tuesday.

He warned that any police officers who were subsequently found
to have been directly or indirectly involved in the
disappearances would certainly be punished.

Reliable sources said that certain parties at police
headquarters were trying to take financial advantage of Farouk's
impending transfer by allowing the owner to take the cars from
the police headquarters to be repaired. They said two cars had
been sent to Surabaya in East Java.

Farouk is due to be installed as new chief of the Maluku
Provincial Police. -- Antara