A witness in the trial of former antigraft leader Antasari Azhar, indicted for killing businessman Nasruddin Zulkarnaen, said Tuesday Sr. Comr. Williardi Wizard, another defendant in the murder case, had received instruction from his superior to make a false testimony against Antasari.
Novarina, Williardi’s wife, said her husband told her about the order when she visited him at the National Police detention center on April 30.
“My husband said that the National Police deputy chief detective had asked him to help the investigators,” she said during a hearing at South Jakarta District Court.
Novarina said Williardi told her that he should admit that he had received an order from Antasari to plot the murder of Nasruddin.
“I was shocked,” Novarina said. “I told him not to follow such an order.”
A few days before the police completed all dossiers for the murder case, Novarina said she and her husband had also met the National Police detective chief Comr. Gen. Susno Duadji to ask about the fate of Williardi.
But again, their hope dented after Susno reiterated that the police would only help Williardi if he followed their plan.
“It’s simple,” Nova repeated Susno’s words. “Your husband only needs to confirm that he received the [murder] order from Antasari.”
Antasari, former Corruption Eradication Commission chief, is currently on trial for allegedly plotting the murder of Nasruddin, a director of state pharmaceutical company PT Putra Rajawali Banjaran.
Nasruddin was killed in a drive-by shooting near the Modernland golf course in Tangerang.
In their indictment, the prosecutors said Nasruddin had caught Antasari red-handed in a room in Gran Mahakam Hotel, South Jakarta, with Nasruddin’s third wife Rhani Juliani. Nasruddin then used the incident as a weapon to blackmail Antasari. This was believed to have triggered Antasari to have Nasruddin killed with support from media tycoon Sigid Haryo Wibisono and former South Jakarta Police Sr. Comr. Williardi Wizard.
Tuesday’s hearing also saw an expert claim it was almost impossible for the drive-by shooting that killed Nasruddin to be conducted by an amateur.
“It is almost impossible for a non-professional to shoot an object twice accurately with one hand from a moving motorcycle,” Roy Haryanto, a national shooting champion between 2003 and 2008 and a trainer for the Indonesian Army shooting squad, said.
“Unless he was trained to shoot between 3,000 and 4,000 bullets with the same gun.”
— JP
