Sons believe culprit in father's murder with him moments before

JAKARTA (JP): The children of the victim of a gangland-style slaying last week are convinced that their father's death was a carefully plotted operation.

Adnan, 30, told The Jakarta Post in an interview that his father Nyo Beng Seng, who was reputed to have triad connections, was watched by an accomplice of his assailants in Mangga Besar before he headed home to Pluit, where he was killed.

Adnan, accompanied by two of his three brothers during the interview, declined to name who was behind the killing.

When asked about the two men named by their father as his killers before he died, while admitting they know them, Beng Seng's children declined to comment.

"I'm afraid to say anything about them because I'm still emotional," said Andy, 34, Adnan's brother. Beng Seng told Tuti minutes before he died that the plotters of his murder were Hong Lie and A Lay.

The police said yesterday that A Lay flew in to Jakarta on Wednesday from Singapore to explain his position at Penjaringan police subprecinct.

Accompanied by his lawyer O.C. Kaligis, A Lay told officers that he had nothing to do with the murder.

A Lay has also sent a letter to the National Police Chief responding to a mysterious letter by one Adi Suprianto accusing him of having a part in the murder.

The victim was getting out of his car when one of the assassins hacked him on the back of the head with a samurai-like sword.

Saman, Beng Seng's driver, later told the police that he drove his employer home from a place on Jl. Mangga Besar VIII at about 1:30 a.m.

Adnan believes that after his father left Mangga Besar, from a place known to be an illegal gambling den, the plotter gave the execution order via handphone to his hit men.

A Lay has said he could not be this man, because at the time of the killing, he was on Jl. Mangga Besar XIII, about one kilometer from Jl. Mangga Besar VIII.

"If someone didn't inform the hit men at the murder scene, how could they have known that my father was in the car, which had earlier brought Ibu Tuti (Beng Seng's second wife) there?" Adnan said.

Adnan quoted the driver Saman and Tuti as saying that before picking up Beng Seng, Saman drove her home with the same car at around 1 a.m. from a "place where she had supper".

"If there was no phone call from the place in Mangga Besar, the masked people might have killed the wrong person," Adnan said.

The gambling den is just about 400 meters from Anita's residence.

Murder Attempt

Beng Seng, alias Darmansyah Suyadi, 57, died from severe stab wounds at around 2:00 a.m. on April 15. His assailants were four masked people in the yard of his second wife's house on Jl. Pluit Kencana Raya 128, North Jakarta.

According to Adnan, there has also been a murder attempt on the family, saying that a week after the killing, a man entered Anita's house and tried to kill him and his relatives. The man, who was holding a sickle, ran away in a chauffeured car, he said.

Adnan used this to support his reluctance to name names. "If I name the suspects, while our suspicions could be baseless, our lives could be in danger."

The three brothers said they want to uncover the plot.

"What we are doing now is just trying to protect ourselves," Adnan said.

Last Monday, Anita received a phone call from a man, who called himself a close friend of Beng Seng's informing her of the names and addresses of the alleged killers. The caller also asked her to pass the information on to the police.

City Police spokesman Lt. Col. A. Latief Rabar yesterday refused to comment on either A Lay's questioning or recent developments in his department's investigation. (bsr)