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)