The fact-finding team assigned to review the case implicating the Corruption Eradication Commission’s (KPK) deputy chairmen will soon summon related parties allegedly involved in a plot to frame the two KPK deputies.
“We have heard the voice recordings containing an alleged plot to fabricate evidence against the KPK deputies [Chandra M. Hamzah and Bibit Samad Rianto] and it has points of interest,” team leader Adnan Buyung Nasution told a media conference Tuesday after a hearing at the Constitutional Court.
In Tuesday’s hearing, the KPK played the voice recordings for the public as ordered by the Court.
The recordings revealed the role of Anggoro’s brother, Anggodo Widjojo who was in active communication with officials from the National Police and the Attorney General’s Office in attempting to develop a case against the KPK deputies.
The officials included junior attorney general for intelligence Wisnu Subroto and several police investigators.
The recordings also mentioned Ritonga, an alleged reference to Deputy Attorney General Abdul Hakim Ritonga; Susno, an alleged reference to National Police detective chief Comr. Gen. Susno Duadji; and Ketut, an alleged reference to the Witness and Victim Protection Agency (LPSK) deputy chairman Ketut Sudiharsa.
“We will need to verify the authenticity of the recordings. We will evaluate whether the voices in the recordings belong to the individuals [allegedly] involved,” Buyung said.
He added the team would start Wednesday to summon members of NGOs focusing on the case, as well as national figures at 10 a.m. in the Presidential Advisory Council office.
“At 1 p.m. we will meet with the National Police chief and at 7 p.m. with chief editors of national media,” Buyung said.
On Thursday, he added, the team would meet with the KPK, Bibit and Chandra, discharged KPK chairman Antasari Azhar, Ritonga, Ari Muladi, Susno and Anggodo “who we heard has never been questioned by the police”.
The team will continue its work Saturday by holding a case hearing with the police and the AGO.
“The venue will depend on the two institutions,” Buyung said.
“We won’t make any conclusions before meeting with the relevant parties,” he added.
The Court is debating a request for a judicial review filed by suspended Bibit and Chandra who were arrested on charges of abuse of power, bribery and extortion allegations related to Anggoro Wi-djojo, a graft suspect who remains at large.
After being named suspects in the case, Bibit and Chandra sought a review of an article of the 2002 KPK law, stipulating that the KPK chairman or deputies must be permanently discharged from their positions if they are defendants in a criminal case.
Both considered the article had violated their rights and violated the principle of presumption of innocence and equality before the law as stated in the Constitution.
Asked whether the team would give special consideration to the safety of KPK deputies, especially Chandra, who in one part of the recordings was threatened with death, Buyung said they would advise the National Police chief to provide Chandra with protection.
Bambang Widjojanto, a lawyer for the KPK deputies, said the recordings revealed not only a plot to frame the deputies, but also how institutionalized corruption had become in Indonesia.
Another lawyer, Taufik Basari, said President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono should use this case as a foundation to rebuild the legal system in the country.
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