Murder case dossiers submitted to court

JAKARTA (JP): The Jakarta Provincial Prosecutors' Office is planning to submit a dossier of a 1991-1992 triple murder case in the United States case to the Central Jakarta district court on Monday.

The Attorney General's office has appointed prosecutor J. Kamaru to handle this case. Harnoko Dewantoro, known as Oki, is the prime suspect of the murders committed in Los Angeles, Antara reported.

The dossiers comprise five picture albums and eleven bundles of police reports. The police have questioned 39 witnesses, 23 of whom are foreigners.

The trial is expected to draw a great deal of public attention because 16 people from the U.S., including Los Angeles detectives, are to be presented as witnesses, together with 14 locals.

Ten expert witnesses from the U.S. and one from Jakarta are also expected to testify.

Oki, 32, is accused of killing his brother Eri Tri Harto Darmawan, 26, a female friend Gina Sutan Aswar, 28, and his Indian business colleague Suresh Mischandani, 45, on separate occasions in Los Angeles in 1991 and 1992.

Arrested in Central Jakarta in January 1995, Oki was tried and is serving two years for counterfeiting passports.

According to Antara, evidence to be presented includes two cases and a suitcase used to store the alleged murder weapon, a locker, a video recording of the crime site and some documents that have been stored at the police headquarters forensic laboratory. (14)