Police general denies accusation for ordering a witness to frame Antasari

Former National Police deputy chief detective Insp. Gen. Hadiatmoko told the South Jakarta District Court on Tuesday he had never ordered witness Sr. Comr. Wiliardi Wizar to make a false dossier against murder defendant, former anti-graft leader Antasari Azhar.

Hadiatmoko said he had only met Williardi once, on April 28 night in his office to cross-check report from Jakarta Police's crime detective unit which found Wiliardi's alleged involvement in the murder of Nasrudin Zulkarnaen, a director in state pharmaceutical company PT Putra Rajawali Banjaran.

"I showed him the photos of Jerry [Hermawan Lo, a businessman which allegedly recruited executors for the murder] and Edo [one of the executors] and asked him whether he recognized them," Hadiatmoko told the court.

"But he said 'No'. If he said 'Yes', I would directly arrest him that time."

According to Hadiatmoko, Jerry and Eko, which had been arrested earlier, informed the police about Wiliardi's involvement in the murder.

Hadiatmoko also said he had never attended Wiliardi questioning session, which took place at the Jakarta police headquarters, rebutting a testimony from Wiliardi that his wife had also witnessed Hadiatmoko approaching him to sign the dossier prepared by police investigators.

Wiliardi, former South Jakarta Police chief, stunned the public last week with his statement in the court hearing that he had been coerced by police investigators to fall in line with a plot to frame Antasari.

Among the officers he named were Hadiatmoko and former Jakarta police detective chief Sr. Comr. M. Iriawan.

In addition to Hadiatmoko and Iriawan, the prosecutors have also presented in the courtroom several investigators who questioned Wiliardi during the making of the dossier.

Antasari is currently on trial for allegedly plotting the murder of Nasrudin, who was killed in a drive-by shooting near Moderland golf course in Tangerang, Banten, in March this year.

It was reported that Antasari, then chairman of the Corruption Eradication Commission, secured help from close friend businessman Sigid Haryo Wibisono, who provided the cash, and Wiliardi, who recruited the hit men, to execute the murder plan.