State prosecutors to return Amrozi's file to police
State prosecutors to return Amrozi's file to police
Agencies, Jakarta
Head of the Bali prosecutor's office I Ketut Yona said on Monday that he would return the case file on key Bali bombing suspect Amrozi to the police so that they could add further details to it.
"The file, which was submitted to us on Jan. 6, is currently being studied. But we can already see that there are matters that still need to be added to by the police," he said.
Yona declined to say what police needed to do or when the file would be returned, but he said the three-volume, 1,623-page file would be returned by Jan. 19 at the latest.
"We have already coordinated this with the police and they are beginning to work on completing the file," he told AFP.
On Friday, State Intelligence Agency (BIN) spokesman Muchyar Yara said that Amrozi's dossier should be returned to the police as it mentioned ammonium nitrate, which he said was not found at the blast site.
Police say Amrozi has admitted to buying a van and chemicals, including ammonium nitrate, to help make the bomb, and then transporting them to Bali.
Police have said they want to put the suspects on trial as early as next month. They could face the death penalty if charged under the new antiterrorist regulation passed in the wake of the bombings that killed more than 190 people on Oct. 12.
Prosecutors have said they have 14 days to study the file. Under the law, if prosecutors are satisfied with the evidential file, they prepare charges which are then brought before the court.
Amrozi was the first suspect arrested after a car bomb ripped through the Kuta tourist strip in Bali. The bombings badly hit the island's tourism-dependent economy.
Fifteen people have been arrested for the bomb attacks, while 11 more, among them two Malaysians, are still being sought.
Key suspects in custody are Amrozi's elder brother Mukhlas, the alleged controller of the Bali attacks, and Imam Samudra, whom police say was the field coordinator.
They allege Mukhlas is the operations chief of the Jamaah Islamiyah regional terror network, which has been linked to the Bali blasts.
Sr. Comr. Zaenuri Lubis, a spokesman for the joint inquiry team, said the police would present the file on Samudra, the alleged mastermind behind the attacks, to prosecutors on Friday.
They had earlier said Samudra's file would be submitted to prosecutors on Wednesday.
"The investigations (into Samudra) have been completed, including inserting data from his laptop into the file," Zaenuri was quoted by Antara as saying.