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Something `fishy' behind tycoon-related drug case
Telling it like it is: Denny Indrayana (left) and Mas Achmad Santosa (right), from the taskforce against judicial corruption, meet with drug suspect Susandi “Aan” Sukatman at Cipinang Penitentiary in East Jakata on Friday
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span class="inline inline-left">Telling it like it is: Denny Indrayana (left) and Mas Achmad Santosa (right), from the taskforce against judicial corruption, meet with drug suspect Susandi “Aan” Sukatman at Cipinang Penitentiary in East Jakata on Friday. The taskforce is looking into possible graft behind Aan’s arrest. JP/Wendra Ajistyatama
The judicial corruption taskforce confirmed there was something suspicious behind the arrest of a drug suspect connected to tycoon Tomy Winata after their visit to a detention center.
Susandi "Aan" Sukama, an employee of a fishery company, a subsidiary of Tomy's Artha Graha Group, has been detained at Cipinang penitentiary for alleged drug possession.
"Aan is being charged with possession of narcotics. But there are, in fact, *judicial corruption* practices behind this that are a lot bigger. Those *practices* are what we need to further investigate," said Denny Indrayana, a member of the taskforce.
"We will make this information available to the public at the right time," he said.
Aan has spent more than two months in detention after the Jakarta Police found him carrying narcotics in his wallet on Dec. 15 last year. The former employee of PT Maritim Timur Jaya in Tual, Southeast Maluku, claimed the police had illegally arrested, detained and assaulted him.
The assault and arrest occurred after he was summoned to the Artha Graha building in Jakarta for interrogation by Maluku Police last December, as a witness for his former employer, David Tjiau, in connection with an illegal stockpile of firearms on Tual Island.
Aan said that he was assaulted during the interrogation and was later handed to the city police after a pill containing amphetamines was found in his pocket.
He said that he believed police had planted the pill in his pocket.
Earlier this month, a court turned down Aan's lawsuit over his arrest and detention by the city police.
On Friday, Denny and another taskforce member, Mas Achmad Santosa, visited Aan in his cell in the Cipinang detention center in East Jakarta.
Also among the visitors were two members of the police's internal affairs division (Propam) and a representative from the Victim and Witness Protection Agency (LPSK).
The meeting with Aan, which took over three hours, provided enough information on the judicial corruption practices in Aan's case, Denny told the press.
Denny said the modus was not unusual.
Edwin Partogi from the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras), who has been assisting Aan throughout his trial, speculated that a certain party covered the Maluku Police's travel expenses to the capital.
"Their visit to the Artha Graha building was not in coordination with the city police," he added.
After hearing Aan's testimony, the taskforce concluded that it was necessary to put him into the witness protection program.
Denny said Aan would be replaced to a safer location on Friday.
The taskforce is working to eradicate corrupt judicial prac-tices, which are rampant across Indonesia.
Denny said his team had so far received 277 reports of corrupt judicial practices from the public since the taskforce's inception in late December last year.
