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he Jakarta Police said on Wednesday that they would hand over the dossier of Randall Cafferty, a US national suspected of chiropractic malpractice, to US authorities after receiving notice that the fugitive had escaped to his home country.

Jakarta Police general crimes chief Sr. Comr. Krishna Murti said the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had told the police that Cafferty had been seen in San Diego, California.

'€œSince Indonesia and the US do not have an extradition treaty, we will hand over Cafferty'€™s dossier [to the US authorities] and request that they continue legal action against him there,'€ he told reporters at the Jakarta Police headquarters in South Jakarta.

He said that if Cafferty was to leave the US for another country, the Jakarta Police would send a request to Interpol for help with arresting the suspect.

Krishna previously said that police were in communication with the US authorities, aiming to determine the best legal procedure for Cafferty.

Cafferty, who was a therapist at a Chiropractic First clinic in South Jakarta, was named a suspect on Jan. 13 after the Jakarta Police excavated the skeletal remains of Cafferty'€™s former patient Allya Sisca Nadya, 33, who died in August last year after receiving a treatment from him.

Allya died on Aug. 7 after undergoing therapy with Cafferty at a Chiropractic First clinic in Pondok Indah shopping center, a day earlier.

Allya'€™s autopsy results and a crime scene reconstruction conducted on Jan. 13 confirmed that Allya had died of malpractice, according to Krishna.

The Jakarta administration has shut down all Chiropractic First clinics in the capital after the health agency revealed that the clinics had been operated illegally and that Cafferty was not listed as an official health practitioner with the Health Ministry.

Cafferty reportedly also had a problematic career in the US. According to the Board of Chiropractic Examiners State of California'€™s website, Cafferty has been on probation and had his license revoked on March 3, 2013, due to '€œunprofessional conduct and being convicted of crime'€, effective for three years. A report was filed against him on Aug. 22, 2012.

Besides Cafferty, the Jakarta Police have also named Malaysian national Khan Wain Min, the owner of the Chiropractic First chain, another suspect in the case. Khan is currently at large.

The Police said recently that Cafferty would face multiple charges: violating Article 122 of Immigration Law No. 6/2011 on visas, carrying a maximum penalty of five years behind bars; Article 191 of Law No. 36/2009 on malpractice, bearing a maximum penalty of one year behind bars and a Rp 100 million (US$7,170) fine; and articles 83 and 84 of Law No. 36/2014 on running a medical practice without a permit, which carries a maximum penalty of six years behind bars.

Meanwhile, Khan is to be charged under Article 185 and Article 42 of Law No. 13/2003 on employing a non-licensed employee.