Yudi Lukito Kurniawan planned to target the SGX Centre in Shenton Way and tried to enter S'pore in 2015.
JAKARTA - An Al-Qaeda affiliated militant who, in 2015, planned an unrealised plot to attack the Singapore Stock Exchange building, is being investigated by the Indonesian police over his current and past participation and role in Indonesia’s terrorist networks.
Yudi was with the Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula – the Yemeni branch of Al-Qaeda – when the plan to target the SGX Centre in Singapore’s Shenton Way Yudi had remarried and moved around frequently to avoid detection, said the source. He was known to have spent time in Surabaya and Pasuruan in East Java, Gorontalo in Sulawesi, and Batam, which is a short ferry ride from Singapore.The source said the Singapore attack plan in 2015 was meant to be an indirect attack on the United States.
While he was with JAT, Yudi was deployed to Yemen as part of the global jihad movement sponsored by the Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula , the press statement noted.
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