Prosecutor seeks one year jail sentence for hapless kidnapper
Prosecutor seeks one year jail sentence for hapless kidnapper
BOGOR (JP): A prosecutor here has asked the local court to
sentence a 20-year-old man to one year in jail for his alleged
involvement in the abduction of two South Koreans earlier this
year.
Prosecutor Rudianto said on Tuesday that the defendant, Okta
Yudistira, alias Sarifudin, was complicit in holding Lee Hyun and
Park Jeung-hoon hostage at his brother's house in Cinere, North
Jakarta, on July 30.
He said the two Koreans were traveling in a blue taxi from
Sunter in North Jakarta back to their home in Cinere in the early
hours of the morning when they were kidnapped by the defendant's
brother Safuan and four accomplices.
"A few minutes after leaving Sunter, the cab was stopped by a
white taxi driven by Safuan. There were four other men in the
white taxi who have since been identified as Ediranto, Win,
Nurida and Sarmadi," the prosecutor said, adding that all five
were still at large.
Ediranto and Win then got into the Koreans' taxi and forced
the driver to follow behind Safuan in the white taxi, Rudianto
told the court.
"Ediranto and Win held the two victims at knife point and
forced them to hand over all their belongings," he said.
The two robbers took Rp 300,000 in cash and a passport from
Lee Hyun and a 10-gram ring, a wristwatch, shoes, trousers and
five credit cards belonging to Jeung Hoon, he added.
"At the Pondok Gede toll gate, the white taxi stopped and the
blue taxi followed suit. The two Koreans were then manhandled
into the white taxi, which sped off back to Cinere," Rudianto
said.
The gang headed straight to Safuan's rented house, where
Sarifudin also lived, and bound and gagged the two Koreans.
The defendant claimed his brother then forced him to guard the
two captives while the gang attempted to withdraw money using
Jeung Hoon's credit cards.
"However, the defendant fell asleep and the two men managed to
escape and went straight to a nearby police station to report the
crime," the prosecutor said.
The court was adjourned until Monday. (24/bsr)