Murder suspects not helping probe

Murder suspects not helping probe

JAKARTA (JP): City police detectives admitted over the weekend
they have made no significant progress following further
questioning of two suspects believed to be involved in the murder
of entertainment businessman Nyo Beng Seng.

"So far, we have not gotten any valuable information from
either of them," a police officer close to the investigation told
The Jakarta Post Saturday evening.

Although police have not been able to get information from the
two suspects as to who the ring leader and accomplices are, or a
motive for the murder, questioning would not be stopped, said the
officer, who asked for anonymity.

"The two are still detained at our office for further
questioning and investigation," he said.

The two suspects, identified as Sudartono, 40, and Agiono, 36,
were arrested by two plain-clothes detectives just after
disembarking from a Singapore flight at the Soekarno-Hatta
International Airport Thursday evening.

Police arrested them on suspicion of drug possession.

So far, the two suspects have only admitted that they were
hired by someone to guard the site of the planned murder in order
to facilitate the plan of the murder.

Police strongly believe the main plotter of the murder, along
with two accomplices are staying overseas.

Beng Seng, alias Darmansyah Suyadi, 57, was savagely stabbed
to death 12 times in the middle of the night on April 15 this
year in front of his second wife's house on Jl. Pluit Kencana
Raya 128 in North Jakarta.

According to the victim's driver, Saman, 45, the key witness
of the killing, the murder was committed by at least four masked
men armed with Samurai weapons.

Newly-installed city police spokesman Lt. Col. Bambang Haryoko
refused to officially comment about the case.

"I've tried, but failed, to contact all officers at the Crime
Investigation Directorate for official statements about the
case," he said.

The decision of the two detained suspects to keep silent could
hamper police's hard work in solving the brutal killing
soon.(bsr)