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MUNIR MURDER SUSPECT MUCHDI SIGNS ARREST WARRANT
Jakarta, June 20 (ANTARA) - Former National Intelligence Agency (BIN) deputy chief Muchdi PR signed an arrest warrant served on him by police but has not yet been put in a cell, his lawyer said here Friday.
"The arrest warrant was signed at around 1 am local time today (Friday) but until this morning , Muchdi was still being interrogated,", Zaenal Maarif, Muchdi's lawyer, said here on Friday.
By signing the arrest warrant, Muchdi was now a detainee, he said.
"We, members of Muchdi's lawyers' team, will hold a meeting to discuss this (his arrest)," he said.
Police have named Muchdi PR as a suspect in the murder of human rights activist Munir.
"Having been declared a suspect, he will be detained as soon as his interrogation tonight is over," chief of the National Police Headquarters' public relations division Insp Gen Abubakar Nataprawira said Thursday night.
Police had served a summons on Muchdi to come to the National Police Headquarters for questioning on Friday (June 20) but he met the summons a day earlier at his own volition, Nataprawira said.
"So Muchdi was not arrested but he gave himself up," Nataprawira said, adding that before he showed up at the National Police Headquarters, Muchdi's lawyer had informed the police his client would surrender on Thursday night.
Nataprawira said Muchdi was to be charged based on Article 340 of the Penal Code on premeditated murder and the Code's Article 55 on participation in a criminal offense.
The articles carried the maximum penalties of 20 years imprisonment, life-long impisonment or death.
Muchdi PR's name was mentioned in the court trials of two other people involved in Munir's murder. A Munir case fact-finding team had also recommended he should be questioned.
The two persons already tried and convicted by a court for Munir's murder are former Garuda pilot Pollycarpus Budihari Priyanto and former PT Garuda airline company president director Indra Setiawan. Priyanto was sentenced to 20 years and Setiawan to one year in jail.
Munir died after being poisoned during a Garuda flight from Jakarta to Amsterdam on September 7, 2004.
"The arrest warrant was signed at around 1 am local time today (Friday) but until this morning , Muchdi was still being interrogated,", Zaenal Maarif, Muchdi's lawyer, said here on Friday.
By signing the arrest warrant, Muchdi was now a detainee, he said.
"We, members of Muchdi's lawyers' team, will hold a meeting to discuss this (his arrest)," he said.
Police have named Muchdi PR as a suspect in the murder of human rights activist Munir.
"Having been declared a suspect, he will be detained as soon as his interrogation tonight is over," chief of the National Police Headquarters' public relations division Insp Gen Abubakar Nataprawira said Thursday night.
Police had served a summons on Muchdi to come to the National Police Headquarters for questioning on Friday (June 20) but he met the summons a day earlier at his own volition, Nataprawira said.
"So Muchdi was not arrested but he gave himself up," Nataprawira said, adding that before he showed up at the National Police Headquarters, Muchdi's lawyer had informed the police his client would surrender on Thursday night.
Nataprawira said Muchdi was to be charged based on Article 340 of the Penal Code on premeditated murder and the Code's Article 55 on participation in a criminal offense.
The articles carried the maximum penalties of 20 years imprisonment, life-long impisonment or death.
Muchdi PR's name was mentioned in the court trials of two other people involved in Munir's murder. A Munir case fact-finding team had also recommended he should be questioned.
The two persons already tried and convicted by a court for Munir's murder are former Garuda pilot Pollycarpus Budihari Priyanto and former PT Garuda airline company president director Indra Setiawan. Priyanto was sentenced to 20 years and Setiawan to one year in jail.
Munir died after being poisoned during a Garuda flight from Jakarta to Amsterdam on September 7, 2004.
