Police submit dossier of immigration officer
JAKARTA (JP): Police say they have handed over the dossier of a high-ranking immigration official accused of using his gun in an irresponsible manner.
"We delivered the dossier several weeks ago and the official has been released on bail," City Police Chief Maj. Gen. Mochammad Hindarto told reporters after installing the new City Police spokesman Lt. Col. Bambang Haryoko, who replaces Col. Latief Rabar as of yesterday.
The immigration official, named Bambang Rusmintarjo, 41, was arrested on July 13, three hours after a shooting incident which involved Jakarta Military Commander Maj. Gen. Hendropriyono's car on the Jagorawi toll road.
On that night, Hendro was reportedly on his way home to the Cibubur housing complex, East Jakarta, from his office in Cawang, while Bambang himself was heading to his home in Bogor.
Hendro's chauffeur reportedly flashed the car's high beam lights several times to let Bambang know of his intention to overtake him, but Bambang did not give way.
Upset over the continued high beam signals, Bambang produced his Colt 32 revolver and fired three times into the air, apparently not aware that it was a military commander's car behind him.
Police officers and military members, contacted by Hendro's personal aide soon after the incident, captured Bambang two and a half hours later at his home in Bogor.
Police seized his car, 11 bullets, two air rifles, and the Colt 32 revolver.
Sembiring
Hindarto also explained that his detectives have identified one of four debt collectors strongly believed to have killed the ex-convict, Johny Sembiring, 62, in an inter-gang rivalry in August.
"We have the complete description and name of one of the four people but haven't found him yet," he said, adding that the police have yet to identify the other three.
Hindarto, however, insisted that the identified suspect has no relationship with noted figure Yorrys Raweyai and his youth organization.
"So far, we found no indication of a relationship between them," he said.
In August, Sembiring and his driver Tumiran, 28, were kidnapped by a group of seven men in a van shortly after leaving Sembiring's office in Central Jakarta. Tumiran was released by the kidnappers the same evening in the Jonggol district, Bogor, while Sembiring was found dead the following day in the Cariu district, an area not far from Jonggol. Sembiring's car was found burned out in the Tambun district, Bekasi. Sembiring, a repeat offender, had opened a debt collecting agency in the Tanah Abang area, Central Jakarta before he died. (bsr)