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KPK must prepare for Oz data in possible graft case
Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) deputy chairman Bambang Widjojanto said that the commission must prepare itself if the Australian government provided information about the alleged multinational graft case implicating President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and his predecessor, Megawati Soekarnoputri
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orruption Eradication Commission (KPK) deputy chairman Bambang Widjojanto said that the commission must prepare itself if the Australian government provided information about the alleged multinational graft case implicating President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and his predecessor, Megawati Soekarnoputri.
"The alleged multimillion dollar graft in the printing of Indonesian banknotes breaks my heart. However, the KPK has only one choice, and that is to prepare itself if the Australian government decides to give it information," he told kompas.com on Friday.
Wikileaks recently release a report that links Yudhoyono and Megawati to graft in the printing of Indonesian banknotes in Australia in 1999. The report was published on Indonesian online news source sindonews.com.
They, as well as former minister Laksamana Sukardi who is also a politician from the Megawati-led Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), are among 17 individuals listed in an order from the Supreme Court of Victoria in Melbourne, leaked by the website.
Dated June 19, the court order has authorized the protection of the identities of 17 individuals in connection to court proceedings in an alleged multimillion dollar bribery case. The remaining 14 people are senior officials as well as current and past heads of state of Malaysia and Vietnam and their relatives.
Bambang explained that the KPK would investigate the information it received before deciding whether to take legal action.
He also said the commission had ties to the Australian Federation Policeand hoped to build cooperation in law enforcement, such in the exchange of information and data related to corruption cases. (fss)
