Police told to complete dossier on Oki murder case

Police told to complete dossier on Oki murder case

JAKARTA (JP): The city prosecutor's office has urged the city police to complete the dossier on Harnoko Dewantono, alias Oki, the suspected killer of two Indonesians and an Indian in Los Angeles last year.

Spokesman for the office, Petrus Sambara, told The Jakarta Post yesterday that city police had yet to resubmit the triple murder dossier.

The dossier was first submitted by police on Aug. 3. However, it was subsequently returned by the prosecutors, who said it was incomplete.

"When a dossier is returned to the police for incompleteness, the police should correct it within 14 days and return it to the prosecutors' office," Petrus said.

Petrus declined, however, to give details of the corrections needed.

Oki, 30, is accused of killing his brother Eri, Indian national Suresh Mirchandani and Gina Sutan Aswar in Los Angeles in 1991 and 1992.

Evidences

Police have collected 109 pieces of evidence, some of which were imported from the U.S., including a revolver, a hammer and a monkey wrench believed to have been used to kill the victims.

Police sources said earlier that Suresh was tortured and shot dead in August 1991, while Gina was battered to death on Nov. 2, 1992. Eri is said to have been beaten to death at an apartment on Palm Boulevard, Los Angeles, several days after Gina's death.

The bodies of the three victims were recovered by Los Angeles police from a storage locker in the city in August last year.

Oki was arrested in Jakarta early this year on charges of passport forgery. He has since been convicted on the passport forgery charges and is serving a jail term of one year and four months for the crime. (29)