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| Monday, 6 January, 2003, 07:26 GMT Indonesian police lodge Bali bomb case ![]() Nearly 200 people died in the nightclub bombing Police in Indonesia have handed prosecutors their first case against a suspect accused of involvement in the bombing on the resort island of Bali last October.
The 1,623-page file sets out the police case against the suspect, known as Amrozi. Under Indonesia's legal system, state prosecutors have two weeks to decide whether the evidence is strong enough to justify taking him to court. The first suspect to have been arrested, in early November, Amrozi is accused of purchasing and delivering the explosives used in the nightclub attack. Death penalty These offences can carry the death penalty under new Indonesian anti-terrorism laws. Files are being prepared on 14 other suspects.
Police have said they want to put the suspects on trial as early as next month. The chief investigator of the Bali bombing, General I Made Mangku Pastika, told Indonesia's el-Shinta radio station that the dossier on Amrozi contained about 200 statements by witnesses. "The dossier is finished and ready," he said. "There are no problems." Police said in November that Amrozi had admitted involvement in the Bali attacks. Others who face prosecution include Amrozi's brother Mukhlas, who police say has admitted to help plan the attack. Police believe Mukhlas to be the operations chief for Jemaah Islamiah, a regional Islamic militant group which aspires to a pan-South East Asian Muslim state. The alleged co-ordinator of the bombings, Imam Samudra, is also under arrest. |
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