Police hopeful of solving Beng Seng murder
Police hopeful of solving Beng Seng murder
JAKARTA (JP): Police said yesterday they see the light at the
end of the tunnel in the Beng Seng murder.
They expect to be able to arrest all of his attackers along
with the person who plotted the killing of the entertainment
businessman Nyo Beng Seng, who was stabbed to death seven months
ago.
In a hearing with members of the House of Representatives,
National Police Chief Gen. Banurusman revealed that the arrest of
three remaining suspects, including the plotter, "is just a
matter of time".
On Thursday evening, senior detectives of the City Police
Crime Investigation Directorate arrested two people believed to
have been played a significant role in the killing of Beng Seng
on April 11 this year.
The two, identified as Sudartono, 40, and Agiono, 36, were
captured upon disembarking from a Singapore flight at the
Soekarno-Hatta International Airport.
City Police Chief Maj. Gen. Mochammad Hindarto, who
accompanied Banurusman at the hearing, said that there were
actually three suspects on the plane.
"The other one apparently saw the arrest of the two and
decided to hide inside the plane's toilet and later flew back to
Singapore via Bali," Hindarto said.
He refused to identify the suspect.
The two suspects, who are now under intensive interrogation at
the city police headquarters, are to be taken to the scene of the
murder to reconstruct their roles in the killing. Hindarto would
gave no precise date for the re-enactment.
During preliminary questioning, the two suspects said that
they were assigned by someone to guard the area while the assault
took place.
Beng Seng, alias Darmansyah Suyadi, 57, was savagely stabbed
12 times in the middle of the night on April 15 this year by at
least four masked men in front of his second wife's mansion at
Jl. Pluit Kencana Raya 128 in North Jakarta.
Banurusman said Singaporean police officers assisted in the
arrest of the first two suspects.
"Under the good cooperation with the Singaporean police, we
could then arrest these two suspects," he told the House members.
Neither Banurusman nor Hindarto gave any explanation
concerning why the two suspects had been in Singapore.
Many police sources believe that the two were asking for
payment of Rp 200 million (US$91,530) from the plotter.
"We're still investigating the possibilities," Hindarto said.
(bsr)