Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Police are currently searching for two persons suspected of being members of a passport forgers syndicate that had provided tax evasion and corruption defendant Gayus Tambunan with an overseas travel document.

"Police investigators will soon issue a list of wanted persons (DPO)," National Police Headquarters spokesman Senior Commissioner Boy Rafli Amar said here Thursday.
The two wanted persons were J1 and J2, Boy said, adding that one of them was a foreign citizen and the other an Indonesian.

The search for the two suspected syndicate members was due to development in recent investigation of suspected A who was arrested on Wednesday.

Gayus had been declared a suspect in illegal foreign trips since Wednesday (Jan 12) and already been questioned for 13 hours.

Gayus had used a fake passport to visit Macau on September 22-24, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore on September 30- October 2 2010.

Police had established that Gayus`s fake passport under the name of Sony Laksono was actually intended for a five-year-old child named Margareta.

Gayus had confessed he had obtained the passport in a value of US $100,000 through middlemen.
(Uu.KR-AES/HAJM/H-YH/P003)

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