It seems the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) may prove to be toothless in its efforts to summon alleged case broker Anggodo Widjojo who has vowed not to respond to a second summons.
The KPK summoned Anggodo last week on a bribery case allegedly involving some of its leaders, but he did not attend as required.
A second summons has been sent requiring Anggodo to attend a questioning session Thursday, said KPK spokesman Johan Budi.
Anggodo would be questioned on his role in the alleged attempted bribing of KPK leaders to halt a graft investigation implicating his fugitive brother, Anggoro Widjojo.
KPK has named Anggoro a suspect and he is believed have taken refuge in Singapore.
The bribery attempt was referred to in telephone conversations between Anggodo and several high-ranking officers of the National Police and Attorney General’s Office.
The tape recordings were played publicly at a Constitutioal Court hearing in November .
Anggodo is the alleged mastermind in an alleged plot to frame KPK deputy chairmen Bibit Samad Rianto and Chandra M. Hamzah.
Bibit and Chandra were named suspects in alleged cases of bribery and extortion and abuse of power on their handling of Anggoro’s case.
However, Johan Budi acknowledged that the KPK could not force Anggodo to attend the questioning session as up to this time the commission remained in the dark on the question of the alleged bribes.
“Off course we will go all out in asking Anggodo to come to the questioning session,” he told The Jakarta Post on Wednesday.
Johan refused to give details on how the KPK had previously tried unsuccessfully to get Anggodo to respond to a first summons.
The KPK’s indecisiveness this time round has sparked criticisms from anti-corruption activists who expected the KPK to move faster as they believed it was getting on top of the case and building evidence against Anggodo.
Asep Iwan Iriawan, a legal expert from Trisakti University had said that the telephone conversation recording was actually KPK’s most valuable asset in building a case against Anggodo.
“It should have been used as early evidence to build a case against Anggodo,” he said.
Bambang Widodo Umar, an expert on criminology, said that the KPK had no choice but to continue building the case against Anggodo as this had been recommended by the presidential fact-finding team.
“Anything that goes against that direction look ugly,” he said.
Commenting on the process, Anggodo’s lawyer Bonaran Situmeang said that his client had initially wanted to attend the KPK session but changed his mind after President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono announced that he expected law enforcement agencies to halt the investigation into the charges against Bibit and Chandra.
“We should honor the president’s statement as it is widely known that my client’s first involvement is related with both Bibit and Chandra,” said Bonaran.
“Therefore we demand that the KPK halt the investigation against my client as well.”
He said if KPK insisted to build a case against Anggodo, he would report the KPK to the President.
But presidential staffer for legal affairs, Denny Indrayana said Yudhoyono’s order to stop the case was only concerning Bibit and Chandra.
“As for Anggodo case, it would depend on the KPK evidence,” he said as quoted by news portal detik.com.
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