Kinanti Pinta Karana – Claims of a police plot by Sr. Comr. Williardi Wizar, a key witness and co-defendant in the murder case of businessman Nasrudin Zulkarnaen, have brought into focus other anomalies in the murder case.

On Tuesday's hearing in the trial at the South Jakarta Court, Williardi, a former South Jakarta Police chief, claimed the police investigation report which he signed was was fabricated to set up former antigraft chief Antasari Azhar.

Since the case began, the lawyers have raised many discrepancies in factual information presented during the murder case, from the shooting distance for the murder to Rani Juliani's sole testimony, which Antasari's indictment was based on, to claims from defendants who said they were abused in a hotel room to force them to testify according to the investigators' scenario.

The police investigation report said Nasrudin was shot from half a meter away. However, in the reenactment, the gun was shot from a further distance. Meanwhile, expert forensic witness Dr. Mun'im Idris, who was presented to the court in October, said Nasrudin was shot from a 60 cm distance with a SNW Revolver 38 gun. Two bullets entered through the left side of his head and stayed inside his brain and right ear.

Besides the shooting distance, there were also anomalies in the account of Antasari and Rani's affair at Hotel Grand Mahakam, because the door was unlocked but Rani did not try to escape when Antasari allegedly asked her to perform indecent acts. Moreover, Rani got permission from her husband, Nasrudin Zulkarnaen, to meet with Antasari and he even took her to the hotel.

Rani testified for the first time on November 5 and claimed she was also a victim in the case, while five other defendants all testified on October 19 that they were threatened by the police to testify according to the police's description of the scenario.

Antasari's case development also concerned Adnan Buyung Nasution, the head of fact finding team in Chandra M Hamzah and Bibit Samad Rianto's case.

"This is getting more and more complicated. Where is this going to lead us? I could not sleep all night," Adnan said at the Presidential Advisory Board on Wednesday.