Today, the investigators interrogate several witnesses, including Mai, who borrowed the name of the cleaning service provider PT APMJakarta (ANTARA) - National Police investigators, Thursday, continued investigation into the case of a fire that ravaged the Attorney General's Office (AGO) building, Sultan Hasanuddin Dalam Street, South Jakarta, Aug 22, 2020, by summoning several witnesses, including Mai.
"Today, the investigators interrogate several witnesses, including Mai, who borrowed the name of the cleaning service provider PT APM," National Police Criminal Investigation Department's (Bareskrim's) General Crimes Director Brig. Gen. Ferdy Sambo noted.
This is the second time that Mai was summoned after being subject to interrogation on November 3 for allegedly borrowing PT APM's name, he remarked.
The police investigators also summoned an AGO civil servant, who functioned as head of planning affairs in 2019, an expert from the Indonesian Architects Association (IAI), and two cleaning service supervisors, identified by their initials as AR and HS, Sambo noted.
Early this week, police investigators had summoned three of the cleaning service -- AR, AS, and HS -- as well as JS, a consultant for the cleaning service supervisors. He was summoned as a witness. The investigators identified HS as an aide of Mai.
Sambo noted that the police investigators had summoned eight suspects -- T, H, S, K, IS, UAN, R, and NH -- on October 27.
Five of the eight suspects are identified as construction workers, while three others comprise a project supervisor, president director of PT ARM, and an AGO official responsible for a construction project within the AGO complex area.
The police investigators had earlier interrogated 64 witnesses in connection with the AGO blaze incident and declared the preliminary result of their probe that concluded that the five construction workers' cigarette butts were causal to the blaze.
According to the police, the workers smoked while working in a room on the 6th floor of the AGO's main building, completely oblivious to the numerous unsafe goods, including thinner, paper, carpet, and glue.
The police charged the suspects for violation of Articles 55 and 56 of the Indonesian Criminal Code. If found guilty, they will be subject to a five-year prison term.
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