Police to return Tampubolon's dossiers after review
Police to return Tampubolon's dossiers after review
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Police to return Tampubolon's dossiers after review
JAKARTA (JP): Police said over the weekend they will return dossiers of the four men accused of killing Brig. Gen. TMF Tampubolon to the prosecutor's office soon after making several revisions.
The statement came almost a month after the prosecutor's office returned the dossiers to the police due to lack of basic information.
Early this month, prosecutor Bonar Gultom who is handling the processing of the indictment from the East Jakarta prosecutor's office said his office had returned the dossiers to the local police because it lacked data on the results of a laboratory study.
"We have completed data asked by the prosecutor's office and the dossiers will be returned to the office back on Saturday," a spokesman for the City Police said.
Along with the dossiers the East Jakarta police precinct is also slated to hand over a set of evidence to be used during the trial later and the suspects, identified as Rusdi Abdul Rahman, 24, Hendrik Setyawan, 25, Rudiyanto, 24, and Lukman, 30.
Tampubolon, according to police, was stabbed 11 times by three of the four suspects after an altercation not far from his house on Jl. Griya Wartawan in Cipinang Muara, East Jakarta, at around 10 p.m. on April 4.
The death of Tampubolon, 54, an expert staff on economic affairs to the Armed Forces (ABRI) Chief and a former group commander for one of the Army's four elite red beret Kopassus squads, highlighted a rash of crime in the Jakarta greater area which many people considered to have inspired the Army to sponsor the ongoing anti-crime Operation Cleansing.
The four suspects, to be charged with Article 338 of the criminal code, may face a maximum of 15 years imprisonment each, if convicted.
Police said the dossiers will be divided into three sets of charges, meaning that the four suspects will be tried in three separate trials.
Rusdi and Lukman will have their own trials while Hendrik and Rusdi will be on trial in the same proceeding.
As of over the weekend, none of the suspects know the name of lawyers who will accompany them during the trial.
City Police chief Maj. Gen. Mochammad Hindarto had repeatedly insisted that the killing of the army brigadier general was a pure crime, not politically motivated murder as thought by many people because Tampubolon reportedly received a phone call minutes before he went out of his house in the ill-fated evening.
Police said Tampubolon in the time evening was driving his military sedan when the four suspects who were walking home in the narrow road from a billiard center shouted hash words at the victim whose car they said to have brushed against them.
Hearing at the shouts, the general turned his car back and questioned the group over their motives which then escalated into an altercation and ultimately the killing. (bsr)