Foreigner Wanted for Gruesome Murder in Indonesia Arrested by Spanish Police
Jakarta Globe, November 26, 2010
Spanish Police have detained a Pakistani man accused of stabbing a man to death in Indonesia and then chopping his body into pieces, the interior ministry said on Thursday.
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| Spanish Police have detained Pakistani man Imran Firasat Sulaeman, pictured, who is accused of stabbing a man to death in Indonesia and then chopping his body into pieces. (Photo courtesy of Minutodigital.com) |
Police arrested the 32-year-old father of two as he was about to enter a metro station in central Madrid, it said in a statement.
They identified him only by his initials but Spanish media gave his name as Imran Firasat Sulaeman, who in 2006 was given permission to live in Spain on humanitarian grounds after claiming he faced the death penalty in Pakistan for marrying a non-Muslim and criticising Islam.
Indonesian authorities had issued an international arrest warrant for his arrest following a kidnap-murder in Karawang, about 60 kilometers east of Jakarta, in June 2010.
Sulaeman and his wife are accused of contacting the victim with the pretext of hiring him to create a web page, and then kidnapping him for ransom, the interior ministry said.
“The crime culminated in a lethal knife stabbing and then dismemberment, with different parts of the body placed in bags and suitcases within refrigerators and then dispersed around Karawang,” it said.
Sulaeman’s Indonesian wife Jenny Setiawan, a Buddhist, was arrested in Indonesia over her suspected involvement in the murder but he returned to Spain at the end of September.
In interviews granted to Spanish media while the couple’s asylum request was being considered, Sulaeman said Pakistan police had amputated the thumb on his left hand and raped his wife as punishment for their relationship.
They fled to Germany but after their asylum request there was turned down they moved to Spain.
The couple settled in Cantabria in northern Spain where they opened several restaurants and where the local press dubbed them “heroes for love.”
They left Spain in 2007 after being accused of defrauding their business partner in the restaurant business and leaving behind hefty debts.
Sulaeman returned to Spain at the end of September 2010 and got a job at a restaurant in Cordoba but after one week he attacked the owner with a knife and stole 6,000 euros ($8,000) from him, according to the ministry statement. He then moved to Madrid.
Agence France-Presse
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