Friday, September 20, 2013

1) Papua Policeman With Fat Account to Be Charged With Money Laundering


1) Papua Policeman With Fat Account to Be Charged With Money Laundering
2) Mob burns regent’s house  in West Papua
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1) Papua Policeman With Fat Account to Be Charged With Money Laundering
By SP/Erwin Christianson on 4:24 pm September 20, 2013.
A low-ranking officer with the Papua Police who was found to have suspicious transactions totaling Rp 1.5 trillion ($132 million) in his bank records will not be arraigned for corruption and instead face money laundering charges, Attorney General Basrief Arief said on Friday.
Adj. First Insp. Labora Sitorus, an officer with the Sorong district police in West Papua, was arrested in Jakarta in May and named a suspect in a fuel smuggling case, following the seizure of 400,000 kiloliters from a boat registered in his name. Around a million liters of fuel linked to the suspect have been confiscated.
Labora was allegedly also involved in illegal logging, and police at Surabaya’s Tanjung Perak Port seized in May 115 containers storing 2,264 cubic meters of illicit merbau lumber allegedly belonging to the officer. The wood came from Sorong, a district in West Papua.
Basrief said that prosecutors will charge Labora with money laundering, illegal logging and fuel hoarding. Labora will not be charged with corruption.
“The dossier we received was like that,” Basrief said in reference to the report used as a base for prosecutors to prepare the indictment.
He did not elaborate on what was contained in the dossier, but said that since it was completed, the case would be soon passed over to the court for trial.
“I think that within two weeks the case will be handed over to the judicial court,” Basrief said.
Neta S. Pane, the chief of police watchdog Indonesia Police Watch, said that the dossiers filed with the prosecutors demonstrate that the police were unscrupulous in their handling of a case involving a fellow officer with a fat bank account.
“It just shows that the [police] are not acting professionally in this case… the worry is that the panel of judges will acquit Labora Sitorus,” Neta said.
He said that Labora should also be charged with corruption and speculated that the charge was most likely omitted since his dossier lists 33 police officers who allegedly received money from Labora.
IPW, Neta said, is suspecting that the charge was dropped in order to close the investigations on the 33 police officers.
A police dossier that was not done comprehensively will make it difficult for prosecutors to prove their accusation in court, he added.
“The prosecutors’ office will have to work hard to complete Labora’s dossier themselves by tracing back the flow of money to the 33 police officers. If not, then the prosecutors will be in a difficult position because of the police’s unprofessionalism,” Neta said.
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2) Mob burns regent’s house  in West Papua
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Archipelago | Fri, September 20 2013, 7:42 PM
The house of Maybrat Regent Bernard Sagrim in West Papua was set ablaze on Thursday by an angry mob following a decision to move the regency’s capital from Kmurkek to Aymaru.
Bernard is the regent for 2011-2016.
“Rage erupted after a clash broke out on Thursday between Bernard’s supporters who are Aymaru tribesmen and supporters of Agus, who competed against Bernard in the election and is from the Ayfat tribe,” National Police spokesperson Sr. Comr. Hilman Thayib said on Friday as quoted by tempo.co.

Hilman added that the angry residents, who opposed moving the capital, also blocked the street to Maybrat.

The Constitutional Court approved on Thursday Bernard’s appeal to move the regency’s capital. (hrl)

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