Ezra Sihite – The lawyer of gang leader Hercules Rozario Marshal said on Wednesday that he would file a pretrial motion against the chief of the West Jakarta police for arresting his client on what he called a "fabricated" charge.

"The case against Hercules is harassment. [The police] seem only to be trying to discover mistakes he's made [that can put him in prison]," lawyer Boyamin Saiman said in a release sent out to journalists on Wednesday.

"The alleged incident of extortion happened in 2008. If he committed any act of extortion, he should have been charged by police at that time."

Hercules was arrested on Saturday over allegations of money laundering and extortion directly after completing a four-month prison sentence at the Jakarta Police detention center for his role in an anti-police riot in Kembangan, West Jakarta.

Jakarta Police spokesman Sr. Comr. Rikwanto said that Hercules was being accused of four cases of extortion and money laundering. West Jakarta police chief Sr. Comr. M. Fadil Imran said earlier that Hercules allegedly committed the crimes in West Jakarta between 2006 and 2013.

It's not yet clear how much the well-connected gangster – wwho declared just last year that his underworld days were behind him – supposedly gained from his illicit activities.

One alleged victim claimed, though, that Hercules and his underlings extorted Rp 950 million from him over two years alone.

Rikwanto said Hercules would be most likely charged under Article 368 of the Criminal Code on extortion, which carries a maximum sentence of nine years in prison.

Boyamin said the pretrial motion would be filed on August 12 at the West Jakarta district court.

"This extortion case should technically be combined with his first charge [inciting an anti-police riot]. But according to the penal code, his first [extortion] case should not even be processed given how long ago it happened."