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View all search resultsProsecutors, police coordinate to pursue Labora Sitorus
The head of the Papua Prosecutorsâ Office (Kejati), Herman de Silva, said his office continues to coordinate with security authorities in West Papua, especially the Sorong Police precinct chief and the Sorong Penitentiary (LP) warden, over the search for Labora Sitorus, a money laundering convict who had left prison after the Supreme Court (MA) refused his appeal and slapped him with a heavier sentence
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he head of the Papua Prosecutors' Office (Kejati), Herman de Silva, said his office continues to coordinate with security authorities in West Papua, especially the Sorong Police precinct chief and the Sorong Penitentiary (LP) warden, over the search for Labora Sitorus, a money laundering convict who had left prison after the Supreme Court (MA) refused his appeal and slapped him with a heavier sentence.
'We have continued to coordinate intensively with related parties to execute the MA's ruling,' he told journalists in Jayapura on Monday.
Herman said he was sure that Labora, a Raja Ampat precinct officer with a bank account containing Rp 1.5 trillion (US$119.09 million), was still in a location somewhere in Sorong regency, West Papua.
'We have traced his whereabouts and we're sure that he is in a location not far from Sorong. Currently, we are still coordinating with the West Papua Police chief, the Sorong Police precinct chief and the LP Sorong warden,' he said.
Refusing his appeal, the MA sentenced Labora to 15 years in prison and ordered him to pay a fine of Rp 5 billion.
Earlier, West Papua Police chief Brig. Gen. Paulus Waterpauw urged Labora to immediately surrender because the legal process over his case had been completed. 'There should have been a handover of both case dossiers and the defendant from the Sorong Prosecutors' Office [Kejari] to the LP Sorong,' he said.
Waterpauw said the police had communicated with persons deemed close to Labora as well as his relatives. He said it was quite difficult for law enforcers to execute the sentence on Labora as his whereabouts remained unknown.
Responding a question about Labora's status as a National Police member, Waterpauw said he was still waiting for the status of his criminal case. 'If his status [as a convict] is confirmed, according to the government and National Police chief's rules and regulations, he must be dismissed with disgrace,' he said. (ebf)(++++)
