The Indonesian police have confirmed that the investigation for the death of the Spanish Matilde Muñoz “continues” and “has done nothing more to start.” He also confirmed that one of the suspects of his alleged premeditated murder was A hotel worker where he stayed on the island of Lombok.
“The investigation is ongoing,” said Yasmara Harahap, police chief at the Western Lombok police station, in charge of the case. In addition, he indicated that Muñoz’s alleged murder would have occurred The morning of July 2 in his room at the Bumi Aditya hotelin the Senggigi area, west of the island, although the results of the Spanish autopsy are not expected to be revealed on Monday.
The police said that one of the suspects worked at the hotel when Muñoz was lodged there, and that the other was an old employee of the center who lived next to him. “At the moment they have not involved anyone else,” he told Efe. In this regard, the agent said They will continue to question hotel personnel as “witnesses” for now.
A theft of 155 euros
According to the police version, the detainees planned the crime in advance and They stole Muñoz 3 million rupees (about 155 euros) and tried to use a Spanish debit card without success. Both the Passport like Muñoz’s mobile phone have been found. In fact, the mobile phone was sold by one of the suspects to a friend, according to the same sources.
Muñoz’s body stayed four days in a hotel storage room and then was transferred to a mound of the Senggigi area, to later take it to the beach where it was found.
The police said they were Muñoz because It was one of the suspects who confessed where he had buried him. The agents found this suspect during the investigation because he was working on the day Muñoz disappeared, on July 1. All this, despite the fact that at first the hotel said to have seen it for the last time on day 2.
False message from Laos
The agents did not want to advance if there will be more arrests of suspects in the case of Muñoz. “Not only are they two, there are more people involved, we believe it absolutely,” Muñoz’s nephew, Ignacio Vilariño, told Efe yesterday.
The suspicions of the Muñoz surroundings have been directed from the beginning to the hotel in which the septuagenaria had been housed for years. From the hotel they told the police that Muñoz had written a message from Laos on July 6, although the immigration authorities denied that he had left the country.
EFE