JAKARTA (AFP) – Two Indonesian police officers went on trial on Thursday charged with selling firearms to alleged Islamist extremists from a group dubbed “Al-Qaeda in Aceh”, which plotted a series of attacks in Jakarta.
Prosecutors said Tatang Mulyadi and Abdi Tunggal bin Adam, logistics officers who guarded the national police warehouse, where weapons were stored, sold firearms to alleged militants through a middleman on 26 occasions.
“Tatang Mulyadi and Abdi Tunggal bin Adam sold a total number of 28 firearms, including rifles such as AK-47, several revolvers, 19,999 bullets,” prosecutor M. Nasir told the East Jakarta district court.
The men received about 191 million rupiah (21,000 dollars) from the sale of the weapons, he added.
“The two accused had taken out firearms and bullets from the national police warehouse and sold them to others illegally and without official permit,” Nasir said.
“The weapons were then used for the militant training in Aceh. The group sought weapons to be used in robberies as a source of financing for their training camp,” Nasir said.
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