Police name four suspects in taxi case

Police name four suspects in taxi case

City police investigators said on Wednesday that they had named
four suspects in a forgery case related to the issuance of an
operational permit for taxi company PT Primer Metro Transindo.

"Definitely, this is a forgery case. We have named four
suspects in the case," city police chief Insp. Gen. Firman Gani
announced publicly on the sidelines of the city's 478th
anniversary celebration at City Council.

Firman, however, declined to reveal the identities of the
suspects.

Late last month, City Audit Agency head Firman Hutajulu said
his agency had submitted three names of officials it strongly
suspected of being involved in the forgery case.

They were current head of the public transportation business
division with the Jakarta Transportation Agency, Bambang
Gardjito, former transportation division of the Jakarta Economic
Development Bureau, Nahar Arifin and the incumbent head of the
passenger vehicles section with the City Economic Development
Bureau, Rizwan Santosa.

Firman said the administration had already decided to dismiss
the officials when they passed their findings on to the police.

According to the Criminal Code, they could face a maximum
sentence of six years in prison.

The case was divulged by Jakarta Deputy Governor Fauzi Bowo,
whose name and signature were allegedly forged on a document
notifying relevant city agencies about the approval to operate
300 taxi cabs belonging to PT Primer. The forged document was
later sent to the City Transportation Agency with the issuance of
new taxi operation permit.

"I am sure that the document is fake as I have not signed any
document approving a new taxi operator recently," Fauzi asserted
Wednesday.

Fauzi added that police had summoned him for questioning as a
witness and he would be meeting them next week. -- JP