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he Australian Federal Police (AFP) have revealed the criminal record of Jessica Kumala Wongso, 27, the lone suspect in the murder of her friend of the same age, Wayan Mirna Salihin, to the Jakarta Police.

An Australian newspaper, The Sydney Morning Herald, said Jessica had permanent resident status in Australia and lived there from 2007 to 2015. It reported she was believed to have committed the acts that were included on the criminal record during that period.

Former Jakarta Police chief Insp. Gen. Tito Karnavian, who has just become the head of the National Counterterrorism Agency (BNPT), said Monday that there were around 14 items in total on her Australian criminal record, but he refused to go into details because he said that would violate a legal agreement between the two parties.

'€œThe Jakarta Police team receive the [official] documents about the records on March 26,'€ he said at the National Police headquarters.

Tito said the information from the AFP included Jessica'€™s attempt to commit suicide and her medical records from a psychologist.

The information will help police investigators finalize Jessica'€™s dossier, which has not been completed even though she was named a suspect and subsequently arrested on Jan. 29.

The time investigators are taking to assemble the dossier has led many to believe that the police are painstakingly building a case against Jessica, who has been charged with premeditated murder. Although the police have always denied that they lack evidence in the case, they have not released any information about a motive for the murder.

The police submitted Jessica'€™s dossier again on Monday after the Jakarta Prosecutor'€™s office returned it to investigators to have them add more information.

'€œWe have received tip-offs from the Australian Federal Police and they surely strengthen our existing evidence,'€ Jakarta Police spokesman Sr. Comr. Mohammad Iqbal said.

Jessica'€™s lawyer Yudi Wibowo Sukinto doubted the validity of the information from the AFP, saying that his client would have been prevented from leaving Australia if the criminal record did in fact exist.

'€œThey [the items on the record] are not true. If the record is true there should be verdicts from courts,'€ Yudi said.

Mirna died in early January after sipping a Vietnamese iced coffee '€” which was allegedly ordered and paid for by Jessica '€” at an upscale café in the Grand Indonesia Mall in Central Jakarta. The police autopsy found a high dose of highly poisonous cyanide in the liquid in Mirna'€™s stomach as well as in the coffee residue.

Jessica, who has been charged with violating article 340 of the Criminal Code, may face the death penalty.

The police, however, have reportedly assured Australia that they would not seek the death penalty for Jessica after the AFP promised to help the Jakarta Police by digging up information about the girl from the time she studied in Australia.

'€œThe Indonesian government has given an assurance to the Australian government that the death penalty will not be sought nor carried out in relation to the alleged offending,'€ a spokeswoman for Australian Justice Minister Michael Keenan was quoted by The Sydney Morning Herald as saying.