Police arrest three suspects in the murder of expatriate
Police arrest three suspects in the murder of expatriate
Abdul Khalik, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta
Police have arrested three suspects in the murder of German
Helmut Kleinen, who was found dead on Monday morning in his
rented house on Jl. Bangka IID in Mampang, South Jakarta.
City police spokesman Sr. Comr. Tjiptono said on Tuesday that
Kleinen's domestic helper, identified as Slamet Untung, 24, and
two of Slamet's friends, identified as Fauzi, 24, and Jamil, 24,
had been arrested for conspiring to murder Kleinen.
"The motive behind the murder was money. They wanted to rob
Kleinen to get money. When the German resisted, they killed him,"
he said.
Investigators arrested the three suspects as Slamet, who was
interrogated as a witness right after police arrived at the crime
scene, confessed after hours of questioning that he and his two
accomplices were responsible for Kleinen's death.
"He helped his two accomplices enter the house early on Monday
morning, led both men to his employer and showed them where his
valuables were kept," Tjiptono said.
The two accomplices then tied Slamet up and made it look like
he had been beaten up.
Slamet's friend Yudi came by at around 7:00 a.m., and was
surprised to find Slamet lying bound and gagged on the floor.
Yudi freed Slamet, and together they went upstairs to look for
Kleinen.
They found him lying on the floor in a pool of blood with his
hands and legs tied. He had stab wounds to his back, neck and
left arm. They then called the police.
Later in the evening, Jamil was arrested at his home in
Pulogadung, East Jakarta, while Fauzi was apprehended at his
uncle's home in Bekasi, West Java.
The three suspects are now in police custody at the Mampang
station in South Jakarta.
Police said after checking the crime scene that they had found
that a number of Kleinen's belongings, including a laptop, a
camera and an expensive watch, were missing.
They said they suspected the robbery was an inside job as no
damage had been found on the gate, windows or doors of the house.
Suspecting that Slamet could have been involved in the murder,
the police immediately started questioning him at the nearby
police station, and after several hours he was eventually named a
suspect.
The incident was the second murder of a foreigner in the last
three weeks.
Two weeks ago, an Australian citizen identified as Frans Louis
Merre, 70, was found dead in his house in Tugu subdistrict in
Depok.
Police suspect that relatives of his domestic helper were
involved in the murder.
However, they said that they were still trying to ascertain
the suspects' whereabouts.