Jakarta (ANTARA News) - National Police Chief Gen Sutanto said not a single Indonesian citizen was arrested and being questioned in connection with the shooting of Timor Leste President Ramos Horta last February.
"Not a single Indonesian citizen has been arrested. All the people we are now questioning (in relation with Horta`s shooting) are Timor Leste citizens," he told the press here on Thursday.
He said the police were questioning four Timor Leste nationals who were arrested near the Indonesia-Timor Leste border on suspicion of involvement in the attempt on Horta`s life in Dili last February. All four were Timor Leste military men who had entered Indonesia without the required legal travel documents.
Sutanto said the police were now legally processing the cases of the four Timor Leste men, adding the Timor Leste government had earlier asked for Indonesia`s assistance to take action against anybody suspected of involvement in the attempt on Horta`s life who had fled to Indonesia.
The police chief expressed hope other members of the network that had perpetrated the attack on Horta could be nabbed.
Sutanto also denied rumors that a Timor Leste-born youth figure residing in Jakarta was linked with the plot to kill Horta.
"There is no such link," he said.
Previously, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said police arrested three people from Timor Leste, namely Egidio Lay Carvalho, Jose Gomes, and Ismail Sansao Moniz Soares last Friday.
"I need to clarify that the three suspects are all members of the Timor Leste Military involved in the unrest and shooting," he said.
The arrest was a follow up on the request Horta had made to him via telephone on April 10,2008, he added.
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"Not a single Indonesian citizen has been arrested. All the people we are now questioning (in relation with Horta`s shooting) are Timor Leste citizens," he told the press here on Thursday.
He said the police were questioning four Timor Leste nationals who were arrested near the Indonesia-Timor Leste border on suspicion of involvement in the attempt on Horta`s life in Dili last February. All four were Timor Leste military men who had entered Indonesia without the required legal travel documents.
Sutanto said the police were now legally processing the cases of the four Timor Leste men, adding the Timor Leste government had earlier asked for Indonesia`s assistance to take action against anybody suspected of involvement in the attempt on Horta`s life who had fled to Indonesia.
The police chief expressed hope other members of the network that had perpetrated the attack on Horta could be nabbed.
Sutanto also denied rumors that a Timor Leste-born youth figure residing in Jakarta was linked with the plot to kill Horta.
"There is no such link," he said.
Previously, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said police arrested three people from Timor Leste, namely Egidio Lay Carvalho, Jose Gomes, and Ismail Sansao Moniz Soares last Friday.
"I need to clarify that the three suspects are all members of the Timor Leste Military involved in the unrest and shooting," he said.
The arrest was a follow up on the request Horta had made to him via telephone on April 10,2008, he added.
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