Indonesian Police Investigates Sambo as Suspect in Premeditated Murder Case

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - Investigators of Indonesian Police’s Special Team at the Police Mobile Brigade (Brimob) Headquarters interrogated Inspector General Ferdy Sambo (FS) as suspect in a premeditated murder case of his bodyguard, Brigadier Nofriansyah Yosua Hutabarat, 27.

“Today, the Special Team’s investigators grill Inspector General FS as a suspect at the Brimob Headquarters,” Police spokesman Inspector General Dedi Prasetyo told the press as quoted by State News Antara.

The team coordinated with the Human Rights Commission, or Komnas HAM in the investigation, Dedy said.

Komnas HAM had scheduled to interrogate FS, though the process is pending, as the police’s special team conducted the interrogation first, which is pro-justitia process in nature, he explained.

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“The grilling started at 10 a.m.,” he said, adding that only the team’s investigators were present during the investigation.

Another investigation was also conducted by investigators of the special team, who questioned Kuat Maruf, or KM, in the same case at the office of the Police’s Crime Investigation Department (Bareskrim). KM is a driver and housemaid of Sambo’s wife. He is the only civilian named suspect in the murder case.

“The second investigation is conducted over KM as a suspect at the Bareskrim office,” he said.

Concurrently, the third investigation was conducted in parallel over an investigator of the Jakarta Police by the National Police Special Inspectorate (Irsus) at their Headquarters, he added.

“Meanwhile, the Special Inspectorate grills an investigator of the Jakarta Police at 10 a.m. (Thursday) at the National Police Headquarters,” Dedy said.