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`New evidence in KPK bribery case must be checked first'
Further clarification is badly needed on new evidence in the form of taped conversation discovered in the Corruption Eradication Commission leaders' bribery case
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urther clarification is badly needed on new evidence in the form of taped conversation discovered in the Corruption Eradication Commission leaders' bribery case.
In the recording, which suggested the whole bribery case was possibly a set- up, Ary Muladi, one of the suspects, had reportedly been ordered to confess as if he was ordered to give bribes to KPK leaders.
"Whether there is evidence regarding this scenario or not, it is obvious that my client has been exploited. He is the one who is entrapped during the investigation," Ary's lawyer Sugeng Teguh Santoso said Sunday.
The tape included Ary, an unidentified official of the Attorney General's Office and Anggodo Widjojo, the brother of the most wanted suspect Anggoro Widjojo.
Anggodo was the one who told Ary the scenario that the latter be assigned as the one given the order to give the money to KPK leaders.
The conversation was recorded in July 2009.
Ary was named a suspect as he was believed to be the person who gave Rp 5 billion in bribes to KPK leaders in order to halt the anti-graft commission' investigation into the graft case concerning Anggoro's company PT Masaro Radiokom that caused the state to suffer Rp 13 billion in losses.
Ary reportedly retracted his written statement as he said that he was not treated with fairness during the investigation. Ary retracted the dossier in which he admitted to having given the money to the KPK leaders.
Sugeng said the sole reason behind the retraction was the fact that he was not the one who actually gave the money to the KPK leaders.
However, a police source denied that Ary had retracted his written statement in the case files.
"What he has done is to make a new statement regarding the money given by Anggoro Widjojo," he said.
Commenting on this, Attorney General Hendarman Supandji said he would be more than happy to hear the tape recording.
He said a series of physical and technical examinations of the taped conversation were necessary before it could be taken into account and considered as evidence.
"And we would also need supporting evidence on the recording, once we find it *to be* solid," Hendarman said.
