Immediately Tried, Brigadier Esco's Death Case Enters The Prosecutor's Desk

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The Mataram District Attorney's Office, West Nusa Tenggara received the transfer of files on the alleged murder of Brigadier Esco Faska Rely with his wife Brigadier RS alias Rizka Sintiyani.

The Head of the Mataram Prosecutor's Office, Made Pasek Swardhyana, in Mataram, confirmed that the file was transferred from the West Lombok Police investigators.

"Yes, we just received it last Thursday," said Pasek, quoted by ANTARA, Friday, September 26.

Following up on the delegation, the prosecutor's office is now examining the completeness of the file to see the fulfillment of the criminal element of the suspect Brigadier General RS which leads to alleged violations of Article 340 of the Criminal Code and/or Article 351 paragraph (3) of the Criminal Code and/or Article 338 of the Criminal Code.

"If there are shortcomings, we will give instructions to investigators," he said.

It is possible, he said, if there are still irregularities in the description of criminal element events, reconstruction will be part of the prosecutor's instructions.

"So far, the information is that investigators have done pre-reconstruction, but we can ask to carry out reconstruction to make the picture of legal events more complete," he said.

For this delegation, the Head of the West Lombok Police Satreskrim AKP Lalu Eka Arya Mardiwinata said that his party is now waiting for the results of the file research.

"We are still waiting for the research prosecutor's instructions," he said.

If the reconstruction is part of the prosecutor's instructions, Lalu Eka said that his party is ready to hold this.

"We will schedule the reconstruction," he said.

In handling the case at this stage of investigation, the police have examined a marathon of witnesses from the case of the death of Brigadier Esco who was found dead in a pathetic garden behind his house in Nyiur Lembang Dalem Hamlet, Jembatan Hangup Village, West Lombok Regency.

Head of Sub-Directorate III for Crime and Violence (Jatanras) of the NTB Police Criminal Investigation Unit AKBP Catur Erwin Setiawan last week, Thursday (11/9), said that West Lombok Police investigators in this case had examined at least 50 witnesses.

Of the dozens of witnesses who underwent examination before the West Lombok Police Satreskrim investigator, Catur emphasized that one of them was the wife of the deceased who was also a member of the National Police.

In a series of investigations that led to the alleged murder, the police also investigated the results of extracting Brigadier Esco's cell phone and his wife.

The deepening of the evidence also refers to the examination of the results of forensic laboratory testing related to bloodstains found around the victim's house and the autopsy of Brigadier Esco's body at Bhayangkara Mataram Hospital.

The West Lombok Police have been revealed to have determined that the handling of this case will run at the investigation stage from the statement of the parents of the deceased who received the Notification on the Progress of Investigation Results (SP2HP) from the West Lombok Police Number: SP2HP / 66 / IX / RES.1.7. / 2025.

In this investigation, the police have found indications of unlawful acts that led to the alleged murder of Brigadier Esco.

The initial evidence was pocketed by the police from the discovery of Brigadier Esco's body on Sunday (24/8) at 11.30 WITA. His body was found wrapped in a rope tied around a small tree.

Based on these findings, information quickly spread to the community to the police. Brigadier Esco's body was then evacuated and the police conducted a crime scene investigation.

The identity of Brigadier Esco was revealed from the clothes he was wearing and his belongings such as cellphones, watches to the keys to two-wheeled vehicles in his trouser bags.