Word: pollycarpus
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...Dutch university. But by the time the plane touched down at Schiphol, Munir was dead?poisoned, an autopsy revealed, by arsenic in his orange juice. Last week Indonesia's Supreme Court, declaring there was insufficient evidence, overturned the conviction and 14-year prison sentence of former Garuda pilot Pollycarpus Priyanto, the only suspect charged in Munir's death. Rights groups worldwide slammed the acquittal, with Human Rights Watch calling it a "failure of the Indonesian justice system...
...test of new President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's pledge to run an open and accountable administration. Yudhoyono set up a 12-member commission consisting of human-rights activists, legal and justice department officials, and a police brigadier. Based on its early findings, police last week arrested a Garuda pilot, Pollycarpus Budihari Priyanto, on suspicion of involvement in the activist's death...
...Though Pollycarpus, 37, didn't know Munir, he called the activist twice on Sept. 6, the night Munir departed?calls he at first denied making, but which were recorded on Munir's cell phone. Pollycarpus then boarded the flight for its first leg to Singapore, and, say the authorities, swapped his business class seat with Munir's in economy; he took a 6 a.m. plane the next morning back to Jakarta. "Garuda doesn't have any reason to murder Munir," says commission member Rachland Nashidik, an activist and a friend of Munir's. "The question is: who has the power...
...Former Garuda CEO Indra Setiawan?who was removed last week with the rest of Garuda's board in a long-planned management change unrelated to the Munir case?says Pollycarpus was flying to Singapore to check on a Boeing 747 with a landing gear problem, and denies any skulduggery on the part of the airline. As someone who challenged the military, security agencies and big business, Munir had many enemies. Rachland says the commission will next question officials from the National Intelligence Agency. "Let's hope," he says, "the investigation doesn't stop with [Pollycarpus'] arrest...
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