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Customs official afraid of drug kingpin
Heru Sulastyono, a customs and excise official implicated in a bribery and money-laundering case, has demanded prosecutors handling his case not to lock him up in the same prison as convicted drug dealers
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eru Sulastyono, a customs and excise officialimplicated in a bribery and money-laundering case, has demanded prosecutorshandling his case not to lock him up in the same prison as convicted drugdealers.
Heru said that his history of helping the police execute major drug busts could put him in harm's way while in prison with the drug lords.
'In the past, Heru Sulastyono has assisted us in the arrest of a drug lord. It makes sense that he doesn't want to be held in a cell with the drug convicts whose arrests were assisted by him,' the National Police's special economics crime director, Brig. Gen. Arief Sulistyanto, said in Jakarta on Tuesday.
Arief referred to drug lord Freddy Budiman, who is on death row for controlling a major drug business and smuggling. Freddy is currently detained at the maximum-security prison in Nusakambangan Island, Central Java.
Heru, export subdivision head at the customs and excise directorate general, is alleged to have accepted 11 insurance policies totaling Rp 11 billion (US$946,000) from a businessman in 2007.
On Tuesday, the police transferred Heru to the Attorney General's Office (AGO) following the office's approval of the case dossiers.
'Upon his transfer to the AGO, we will ask the prosecutors to guarantee his safety,' Arief said.
