Police submit dossier of immigration officer

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)