Oki gets two years in jail for passport forgery

Oki gets two years in jail for passport forgery

JAKARTA (JP): The South Jakarta District Court sentenced
yesterday Harnoko Dewantono, alias Oki, to two years imprisonment
for being found guilty of falsifying passports and using the fake
documents.

Presiding Judge Dorris A.A. Taulo said in his verdict that the
use of fake documents is a violation of Article 263 of the
Criminal Code, and that possessing four passports, which are all
valid in the same period, is a violation of Article 55 of
Immigration Law Number 2, issued in 1992.

"Because of these violations we sentence the defendant to two
years in jail," Dorris said. Dorris was accompanied by Judges
Hasan Marzuki and Jenni S. Isman at the trial.

Responding to the court's ruling, the defendant said that he
would appeal, as did the prosecutor, Abdul Muis Gassing, who last
month demanded that Oki be sentenced to five years in prison on
the basis of three charges.

The three charges are: the use of fake passports; providing
inaccurate data or wrong information; and the use of more than
one passport.

Oki has used four passports since July 1988. His first
passport, No. A-406713, in the name of Harnoko Dewantono
Hendarno, was issued on July 21, 1988, and was valid until July
21, 1990. It was renewed on June 20, 1994.

The second passport, No. B-262816, in the name of Harnoko
Dewantono, was issued on Aug. 15, 1989, and valid until Aug. 15,
1995.

The third passport, No. B-646264, in the name of Oki Harnoko,
was issued on July 1, 1991, and valid until July 1, 1997. And the
fourth passport he used was No. D-312539, in the name of his late
brother, Eri Triharto Darmawan.

All of the passports would be returned to the Immigration
Directorate General for use as material evidence in Oki's other
case.

Oki is also being charged for his alleged role in the killing
of his female business partner, Gina Sutan Aswar, his brother,
Eri Triharto, and his Indian business partner, Suresh
Mirchandani, in Los Angeles, the United States.

The three were believed to have been killed at separate times,
in 1991 and 1992, but were found together in a storage locker and
identified late last year.

Los Angeles police handed over material evidence of the triple
murder case to Jakarta police last April.

The material evidence, tightly sealed in two boxes and a bag,
consists of 113 pieces of evidence, including two guns, a .38
caliber revolver and plastic sheets used for wrapping corpses.

The Police's Forensic Laboratory Center has been examining the
evidence. (29)