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he legal representative of five Citibank contracted debt collectors who allegedly played a role in the death of one of the bank’s clients has filed a report to the Jakarta Police alleging that forensic scientist Mun’im Idris forged a forensic report on the death.

“We reported doctor Mun’im Idris to the Jakarta Police on Nov. 1. We are waiting for the police to follow up on our report and we are willing to be summoned by the investigators anytime,” the debt collectors’ lawyer, Luthfie Hakim, told reporters on Wednesday.

The collectors allegedly killed Irzen Octa, a Citibank client who died after he visited the bank’s branch office in Gatot Subroto to settle his credit card debt on March 29.

Following Octa’s death, two autopsy reports signed by the same doctor were issued but their conclusions were contradictory.

The first report said that “bruises were found on the victim’s nose due to a blunt object strike and asphyxiation. The cause of death cannot be fully determined until a surgical examination is performed.”

The second report said that Octa died from brain trauma, which had to be confirmed by a laboratory test.

Due to the contradiction, Octa family’s lawyer, OC Kaligis, then asked Mun’im to conduct another autopsy on the body. Mun’im autopsy concluded that there were bruises all over Octa’s body that could have been caused by violence.

Luthfie deemed that Mun’im’s autopsy was illegal because it was not conducted at the official request of police investigators.

“The autopsy [conducted by Mun’im] was not made based on the investigators’ request, a stipulation regulated in the Criminal Code,” he said.

Separately, Kaligis said that Luthfie’s remarks questioning Mun’im’s objectivity did not make sense.

“Anyone, including me, can always ask him to conduct an autopsy,” Kaligis told The Jakarta Post.