Kok belum pernah denger ada jendral namanya Erick Wotulo? Adakah yang tau siapa ini?
manneke -----Original Message----- > Date: Sat Feb 24 12:19:46 PST 2007 > From: "Sunny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [mediacare] FORMER INDONESIAN MILITARY GENERAL ERICK WOTULO PLEADS > GUILTY IN THE TAMIL TIGER ARMS SUPPLY CASE > To: Undisclosed-Recipient:;@unspecified-domain > > http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items07/250207-3.html > > FORMER INDONESIAN MILITARY GENERAL ERICK WOTULO PLEADS GUILTY IN THE TAMIL > TIGER ARMS SUPPLY CASE > By Walter Jayawardhana > A former Indonesian military General , Erick Wotulo (59) pleaded guilty in > the United States Federal court in Baltimore to the charges of money > laundering and conspiring to supply sophisticated arms to the proscribed Sri > Lankan terrorist group, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). > > Wotulo faces a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison for conspiracy to > provide material support to a terrorist group and a maximum sentence of 20 > years in prison for money laundering. U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake > scheduled sentencing for May 25. > > In this case it was alleged Wotulo and other were conspiring to supply the > Sri Lankan terrorist group, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam also known > as the Tamil Tigers with the state of the art firearms, machine guns and > ammunition , surface to air missiles, and night vision goggles to fight the > Sri Lankan government. > > The alleged conspirators in this case were dealing with a fictitious company > set up by the FBI in Maryland about the purchasing of military weapons . > Wotulo helped acquire and arranged the proposed delivery to the Tamil Tigers. > Wotulo was ensnared in Guam when he went there to transact the business and > meet other conspirators and FBI agents posing as arms dealers. He was accused > of paying hundreds of thousand dollars of LTTE money to ship high tech > weapons restricted by law to the Sri Lankan rebels and Indonesian army. > > In a an elaborate sting operation Federal undercover agents put up a > Singapore Arms broker in an inner harbor hotel in Baltimore and took him to a > camouflaged Police shooting range in the nearby Harford Country to test fire > the weapons he was planning to buy . > > The 59 year old retired Indonesian General pleaded guilty to the charges of > conspiracy to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist > organization and money laundering. > Before this two other Indonesians accused in the case have pleaded guilty. > > The Acting special agent in charge of the Baltimore office of the Immigration > and Custom Enforcement James Denkins said, "This case demonstrates the real > threat posed by international arms trafficking and money laundering. > Criminals or terrorists can wire funds anywhere in the world in an effort to > further their illegal activity, often with no questions asked." > > According to the plea agreement revealed in the courts Wotulo conspired with > the others beginning in April last year to supply the weapons to the Tamil > Tigers in Sri Lanka to seek a separate state there. > > The prosecutors in the case said that Wotulo helped his associates, to > acquire military technology for the Tamil Tigers requesting prices, > negotiating purchases and providing details of ocean routes for the transfer > of the arms to the Tamil group in Sri Lanka. > > According to the prosecution he also contacted the undercover business in > Maryland on June 5 last year and said he and his colleagues wanted to buy > weapons. Wotulo said that the Chief of the Tamil Tigers requested that he and > another co-defendant travel to Baltimore to arrange weapons purchases. > > On September 29 Wotulo arrived in Guam to meet everybody to discuss the > shipboard loading of the arms and the munitions destined for the Tamil > Tigers. It was in Guam where he and the five others were arrested by US > agents. > > > >
