A President-sanctioned fact-finding team claims to have found inconsistencies in statements made by suspended National Police chief of detectives Comr. Gen. Susno Duadji at an inquiry session on Friday.
"The money flowed from Anggoro *Widjojo* to his brother Anggodo, then to Ari Muladi. From Ari, the money went to KPK *Corruption Eradication Commission* official Ade Raharja," team leader Adnan Buyung Nasution told reporters on Friday.
He was referring to money allegedly used to bribe suspended KPK deputies Chandra M. Hamzah and Bibit Samad Rianto.
"But then Ari revised his statement, not annulled it. In his revised statement, Ari said the money did not go to Ade, but to Yulianto, who remains unknown," Buyung said.
"There is a big question as to whether Yulianto is fictive or really exists but disappeared or has been made to disappear."
Anggoro is the director of PT Masaro Radiokom and was allegedly involved in a bribery case involving a communication system project at the Forestry Ministry.
Buyung said that according to Susno, Ari's initial statement that the money had been given to Ade was the correct one, based on police lie detector results.
"Ari was later named a suspect for embezzling money because not all of the money went to Ade," he said.
"This is a big problem for the team because not only is there something wrong, it also violates human rights."
Buyung said Ari had been asked to testify with his first statement later at a court, otherwise he would be named a suspect in an embezzlement case because he did not give all of Anggoro's money from Anggodo to the KPK deputies.
Team member Anies Baswedan questioned the arrest of Bibit and Chandra.
"Why were the KPK deputies named suspects, while there was Ade Raharja *involved*," he said.
"Why was *Ade* not named a suspect too? What's going on here?"
The police arrested Chandra and Bibit on Oct. 29 and released them past midnight last Wednesday, after the Constitutional Court on Tuesday heard voice recordings revealing a plot to frame the deputies.
"Ari will become a suspect in an embezzlement case, but will also testify in a blackmail case. How can you testify honestly if you are also a suspect? Is that logical or not?" asked Anies.
"If Ari is named a suspect, why couldn't Anggodo be named a suspect too, when in fact *Anggodo* was the one who gave Anggoro's money *to Ari*?"
The team is set to question Ari on Saturday.
Team member Amir Syamsuddin questioned the significance of Susno questioning Anggoro in Singapore.
"Why was it so urgent for *Susno* to go to Singapore to meet Anggoro?"
On July 10, Susno met with Anggoro at the Indonesian Embassy in Singapore. Susno said he had questioned Anggoro alone based on the latter's request (fearing he would be arrested).
Earlier Friday, the team also met Attorney General Hendarman Supandji and Financial Reporting and Transaction Analysis Center (PPATK) chief Yunus Husein.
Buyung said Hendarman had restated that his office had not manipulated the case against Chandra and Bibit, while team members refused to disclose information surrounding their meeting with Yunus.
The team is scheduled to reconstruct the charges against Bibit and Chandra on Saturday in the presence of National Police chief Gen. Bambang Hendarso Danuri, Hendarman and police investigators.
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