"At 7a.m. local time, on Monday, a Densus 88 squad, in cooperation with the Central Sulawesi police, arrested terror suspect Imran alias Legenda," Head of the Public Information Bureau of the National Police Commands Public Relations Division, Senior Commissioner Agus Rianto, stated here on Monday.
He said Imran did not offer any resistance while he was arrested at his house in Tabalu village in the sub-district of Mapane, Poso, Central Sulawesi.
Rianto stated that Imran is believed to have hidden Santoso and offered shelter to the members of the MIT group.
"He also acted as Santosos courier and had facilitated a meeting between Santoso and his wife," he claimed.
In the past three days, seven terror suspects have been arrested in Central and South Sulawesi.
On Sunday (Jan. 11), Densus 88 arrested Amirudin alias Aco Tabalu alias Aco Gula Merah alias Bunga Desa.
On Saturday (Jan. 10), it arrested five others linked to the MIT group comprising Ilham Syafii (IS), who was killed during a firefight, Saiful Jambi alias Ipul, Rustam alias Ape, Hasan and his wife Ros.
On Thursday (Jan. 8), Densus 88 also arrested two terror suspects, with the initials DE and ER, in the town of Bima in the eastern province of West Nusa Tenggara.
DE, a villager of Penatoi in the sub-district of Mpunda, has been arrested for alleged involvement with the Santoso-led network in Poso, Central Sulawesi, Chief of the Sub-Directorate I of the West Nusa Tenggara Police Commands Crime Investigation Department, Adjunct Senior Commissioner I. Made Yasa stated in Mataram on Monday.
He said ER was believed to have supplied funds to the families of the terrorist members in Bima. The terrorists were undergoing training in Poso and have been killed.
Reporting by Anita Permata Dewi
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