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

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)