Three officers charged with buying stolen car
Three officers charged with buying stolen car
Abdul Khalik, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta
The Jakarta Police announced on Wednesday there was sufficient
evidence to charge three police officers with receiving a stolen
vehicle.
West Jakarta Police chief Sr. Comr. Safaruddin said Chief
Brig. Samsi from the Semanan Police station in Tangerang and
Chief Brig. Budi Utomo and Adj. First Insp. Endang from the Lebak
Police precinct, also in Tangerang, had been detained since
Tuesday.
The officers were detained after police questioned four
suspects in the robbery and murder of an Express Taxi driver in
late October.
"We have sufficient evidence that the three officers purchased
a stolen car from an auto theft ring. We have detained them for
further questioning," Safaruddin told The Jakarta Post.
He said the officers would face dismissal and jail terms if
found guilty of the crime.
Safaruddin said the officers would be charged under Article
480 of the Criminal Code on buying stolen goods. The article
carries a maximum punishment of four years in prison.
On Oct. 28, a factory security guard in Cikupa, Tangerang,
found an unidentified body. The body was buried in Legok,
Tangerang, but the next day the family of Sarino, a driver in
Express Taxi's Bintaro pool, identified the body from a photo.
Sarino's body was exhumed and taken to Cipto Mangunkusumo General
Hospital in Central Jakarta for an autopsy last Sunday.
On Monday, police said they had arrested four suspects in the
robbery and murder. The four were identified as Cepi, alias Play,
21, Ropi, 21, Jubaedi, 21, and Dedi Hakeki, 30.
Police said the suspects had admitted to robbing and killing
Sarino before driving away in his taxi.
All of the suspects will be charged under Article 365 of the
Criminal Code on murder in the commission of a robbery, which
carries a maximum penalty of death.
Hundreds of Express Taxi drivers demonstrated in front of the
West Jakarta Police Headquarters on Monday to demand police
investigate allegations that several officers were involved in
the robbery and murder.
The police deny any officers were involved in Sarino's murder.