Mother to sue police for shooting swindle suspect
<p>Mother to sue police for shooting swindle suspect</p><p> JAKARTA (JP): The mother of Humala Hutabarat, the country's
most sought after bank swindler, will file a lawsuit against City
Police for shooting dead her son during a recent raid.</p><p>"He gave a policeman Rp 200 million as a bribe. I know the
police deliberately shot my son to death because they were afraid
that this secret would be exposed," Mrs. Pasaribu, 74, told
reporters at Cipto Mangunkusumo General Hospital on Friday.</p><p>The elderly woman, a mother of nine, said that he gave the
money to the policeman a few days before he was killed.</p><p>However, she refused to identify the policeman. "I will keep
it secret until I have submitted the lawsuit. But I have to tell
you that the officer comes from our village in North Sumatra,"
she said as quoted by Pos Kota daily.</p><p>Hutabarat, alias Wool Poltak, alias Samsudin Hutabarat, alias
Ompung, 54, was shot dead by a police detective in the parking
lot of his office Wednesday evening</p><p>The officer shot him in the back of the head while he
reportedly tried to snatch the gun from the detective. He died
instantly.</p><p>Mrs. Pasaribu came to Jakarta from Medan, where she lives, on
Thursday after being informed by her relatives in Jakarta of her
son's death.</p><p>She said she could not accept the police's "high-handed
action" in killing her son. "Even if my son had resisted arrest,
police could have shot his legs instead of the head," she said
with tears in her eyes.</p><p>Hutabarat's body was flown to his hometown of Pematang
Siantar, North Sumatra where he was buried yesterday.</p><p>Hutabarat, who had many different aliases, addresses and
identification cards, was believed to have embezzled at least Rp
15.39 billion (US$7.04b) during a series of well-planned credit
transfer frauds in North Sumatra and Jakarta beginning in 1981.
It has been billed as the biggest bank fraud case of its kind in
the country.</p><p>Hutabarat reportedly carried out his operation by
counterfeiting data and forms with the cooperation of a number of
clearing staff at respected state banks. Several partners,
including his sons, also helped.</p><p>City police records show that Hutabarat started his illegal
operation by defrauding the Pematang Siantar branch of the state-
run Bank Rakyat Indonesia, making off with Rp 845 million. A year
later, he stole Rp 445 million from the Medan chapter of the
state bank BPD in Medan but was arrested.</p><p>He managed to escape, however, before being brought to court.</p><p>In 1984, he pulled off another in Medan where he swindled Rp
1.4 billion from BPD.</p><p>His first target in Jakarta was BPD which reported a loss of
Rp 1.7 billion in 1988. Four years later, BDN Melawai in South
Jakarta lost Rp 3.2 billion. Hutabarat and his accomplices,
including some of the bank's staff, had issued a fake account and
put it into the clearing transfer process.(bas)</p>
most sought after bank swindler, will file a lawsuit against City
Police for shooting dead her son during a recent raid.</p><p>"He gave a policeman Rp 200 million as a bribe. I know the
police deliberately shot my son to death because they were afraid
that this secret would be exposed," Mrs. Pasaribu, 74, told
reporters at Cipto Mangunkusumo General Hospital on Friday.</p><p>The elderly woman, a mother of nine, said that he gave the
money to the policeman a few days before he was killed.</p><p>However, she refused to identify the policeman. "I will keep
it secret until I have submitted the lawsuit. But I have to tell
you that the officer comes from our village in North Sumatra,"
she said as quoted by Pos Kota daily.</p><p>Hutabarat, alias Wool Poltak, alias Samsudin Hutabarat, alias
Ompung, 54, was shot dead by a police detective in the parking
lot of his office Wednesday evening</p><p>The officer shot him in the back of the head while he
reportedly tried to snatch the gun from the detective. He died
instantly.</p><p>Mrs. Pasaribu came to Jakarta from Medan, where she lives, on
Thursday after being informed by her relatives in Jakarta of her
son's death.</p><p>She said she could not accept the police's "high-handed
action" in killing her son. "Even if my son had resisted arrest,
police could have shot his legs instead of the head," she said
with tears in her eyes.</p><p>Hutabarat's body was flown to his hometown of Pematang
Siantar, North Sumatra where he was buried yesterday.</p><p>Hutabarat, who had many different aliases, addresses and
identification cards, was believed to have embezzled at least Rp
15.39 billion (US$7.04b) during a series of well-planned credit
transfer frauds in North Sumatra and Jakarta beginning in 1981.
It has been billed as the biggest bank fraud case of its kind in
the country.</p><p>Hutabarat reportedly carried out his operation by
counterfeiting data and forms with the cooperation of a number of
clearing staff at respected state banks. Several partners,
including his sons, also helped.</p><p>City police records show that Hutabarat started his illegal
operation by defrauding the Pematang Siantar branch of the state-
run Bank Rakyat Indonesia, making off with Rp 845 million. A year
later, he stole Rp 445 million from the Medan chapter of the
state bank BPD in Medan but was arrested.</p><p>He managed to escape, however, before being brought to court.</p><p>In 1984, he pulled off another in Medan where he swindled Rp
1.4 billion from BPD.</p><p>His first target in Jakarta was BPD which reported a loss of
Rp 1.7 billion in 1988. Four years later, BDN Melawai in South
Jakarta lost Rp 3.2 billion. Hutabarat and his accomplices,
including some of the bank's staff, had issued a fake account and
put it into the clearing transfer process.(bas)</p>