Indonesian police have stated that Malaysian terrorist Noordin Mohammad Top, long active in Indonesia, was responsible for a fatal jewelry store robbery in Yogyakarta province earlier this month, December, 2005.

The police chief said:

Based on police investigations, there are indications that the gold store robbery in Yogyakarta was carried out by Noordin M. Top’s group.

Makbul said bullet casings found at the robbery, in which the store owner was killed and almost five kilograms of jewelry was stolen, matched those found after a shootout between police and Noordin’s top accomplice, Azahari Husin, in his East Java hideaway last month.