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Team starts probing Freddy's testimony
A joint team of 18 members, comprising police investigators and public representatives, are working to look for evidence in their investigation into the testimony of executed drug convict Freddy Budiman, over the alleged involvement of top rank security officials in his drug business.
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Drug lord Freddy Budiman attends his second case review hearing at the Cilacap District Court in Central Java in May. (thejakartapost.com/Agus Maryono)
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joint team of 18 members, comprising police investigators and public representatives, are working to look for evidence in their investigation into the testimony of executed drug convict Freddy Budiman regarding the alleged involvement of top-ranking security officials in his drug business.
“We will go to Nusakambangan [prison island] next Tuesday and interview a number of people, including clerics and prison officials, to reveal the truth of his statement,” Effendi Ghazali, a political communications expert who is also a member of the joint team, told The Jakarta Post on Friday.
He further said that it was expected that through the interviews, the team could get confirmation about the meeting between Freddy and Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) coordinator Haris Azhar in 2014.
In his testimony to Haris, Freddy claimed that high-ranking officials within the National Police, Indonesian Military (TNI) and National Narcotics Agency (BNN) were involved in his drug business. Haris published the testimony on social media one day before the drug lord was executed on July 29.
The three state institutions reported Haris to the police’s Criminal Investigation Department (Bareskrim) for defamation on Aug.3; however, on Wednesday, the police announced they had decided to temporarily suspend their investigation into Haris’ defamation case and would instead let the independent team investigate Freddy’s testimony.
Effendi said all members of society could participate in the team’s investigation by giving information related to the testimony via hotline number 08818811986, which connects directly connected to the team’s secretary, Sr. Comr. Baharudin Djafar. (wnd/ebf)
