brigadir jenderal marinir (purn) erick wotulo.
tempo hari kisahnya ramai diberitakan media massa.
At 09:00 AM 2/25/2007, you wrote:
Kok belum pernah denger ada jendral namanya Erick Wotulo? Adakah
yang tau siapa ini?
manneke
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> Date: Sat Feb 24 12:19:46 PST 2007
> From: "Sunny" <<mailto:ambon%40tele2.se>[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [mediacare] FORMER INDONESIAN MILITARY GENERAL ERICK
WOTULO PLEADS GUILTY IN THE TAMIL TIGER ARMS SUPPLY CASE
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> 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.
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