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Budi Gunawan reports KPK leaders to AGO
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ational Police chief hopeful Comr. Gen. Budi Gunawan has reported Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) chairman Abraham Samad and KPK Deputy Chairman Bambang Widjojanto to the Attorney General's Office (AGO) for alleged power abuses.
Eggy Sudjana and Razman Arif Nasution, two lawyers who accompanied Budi in the case, said they represented Budi in the filing of file the report with the AGO.
'We are representing Comr. Gen. Budi Gunawan to report the two KPK leaders to the AGO,' kompas.com quoted Eggy as saying before filing the report on Wednesday.
Samad and Bambang announced at a press conference a day before Budi underwent a confirmation hearing before House of Representatives Commission III on law last week that Budi had been declared a graft suspect in connection with fat bank accounts in his name.
President Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo has suspended the inauguration of Budi as the new police chief pending a KPK investigation into the case. The President has instead appointed deputy police chief Comr. Gen. Badrodin Haiti as acting police chief until the KPK has completed its investigation into Budi.
The director of investigation at the AGO, Suyadi, confirmed that his office had received the report and would follow it up immediately.
'We will study the report. We have 14 days to do it before deciding on whether the report should be followed up or dropped,' he said.
He added that his office would not yet summons Samad or Bambang but would first study the report.
The National Police have also filed for a pretrial hearing with the South Jakarta District Court regarding on the KPK's move to name Budi a suspect.(***)(++++)
