More Beng Seng murder suspects rounded up
More Beng Seng murder suspects rounded up
JAKARTA (JP): Police have detained three more alleged
murderers of entertainment businessman Nyo Beng Seng, City Police
Chief Maj. Gen. Mochammad Hindarto said yesterday.
"The three suspects are Syamsir, arrested in the North
Sumatera capital of Medan on Tuesday evening, and Yudhi and Agus
who were arrested in Singapore several weeks ago," Hindarto said
in a year's end press conference on Thursday.
The police chief gave no further details about the three,
saying it might hamper the police investigation.
On Nov. 24, the city detectives arrested the first two
alleged criminals, identified as Sudartono, 40, and Agiono, 36,
just after disembarking from a flight at the Soekarno-Hatta
International Airport.
"All these five alleged suspects are believed to have been
involved in the killing and may have guarded the scene during the
murder," Hindarto said.
According to Hindarto, the police have yet to learn anything
from the five people about the murder.
"They said that they know nothing about the motive but just
did what their employer told them to do," he said.
"With the arrest of the five suspects, we'll try to complete
and immediately hand over their dossiers to the prosecutor's
office because we can't wait for the arrest of all the suspects
as it might take one or two years," he said.
"We're still looking for a number of other suspects and a
man we have identified and believe hired these people to kill
Beng Seng," Hindarto said without giving details on the exact
number of hired killers still at large.
He said that the identified person, who allegedly employed
the murderers, is an ex-convict from the Nusakambangan island
penitentiary, a noted prison for hard-core criminals, near
Cilacap, Central Jakarta.
"This man was in prison for killing two police officers,"
Hindarto said. "Based on the latest available information we
have, he was released on bail recently."
Hindarto vowed to investigate the reason behind the early
release of the suspect, who is believed to be in hiding somewhere
in Sumatra.
He said that the man is believed to have ordered the hired
killers to carry out the assassination. "We strongly believed
that this person was hired by others, who were also ordered by
someone else," Hindarto said.
"Their work involved a large number of people under a series
of levels of orders. The arrest of this suspect is expected to
lead to the detention of the real man behind the killing, he
added.
Hindarto said that the police have also identified another
suspect believed to be a major part of the case and the one who
supplied money to the murderers.
Due to the complicated system in the suspects' network, the
police chief claimed the case might not be solved in one or two
years.
"We're doing our best step by step to discover the murder of
Beng Seng," he said, adding that a number of police officers have
been sent to Singapore, Malaysia and many parts of the country to
collect valuable information and related data on the murder case.
Beng Seng, alias Darmansyah Suyadi, 57, was savagely stabbed
to death 12 times in the early hours of the night on April 15
this year by at least four masked men in front of his second
wife's mansion on Jl. Pluit Kencana Raya in North Jakarta.
Previously, police and media reports named a number of
people believed to have played roles in the killing, such as his
competitors in the gambling business and his second wife. (bsr)