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Another KPK commissioner reported to police
After Bambang Widjojanto, another deputy chairman of Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), Adnan Pandu Praja, was reported by a timber company on Saturday to the police for the alleged takeover of the companyâs shares
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fter Bambang Widjojanto, another deputy chairman of Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), Adnan Pandu Praja, was reported by a timber company on Saturday to the police for the alleged takeover of the company's shares.
'Representing the holders of the shares, we have been at the National Police headquarters to report the case,' Antara news agency quoted Mukhlis Ramlan, a lawyer of timber company PT Desy Timber, as saying on Saturday.
He said the alleged takeover by force of his clients' shares in the company took place in 2006 when Adnan was acting as a lawyer of the company holding a concession of a 36,000-hectare forest in Berau, East Kalimantan in 1970.
On Friday, KPK deputy chairman Bambang Widjojanto was arrested by the police for allegedly giving false testimony when the Constitutional Court heard the West Kotawaringin election dispute case in July 2010. Bambang was released at dawn on Saturday but remains a suspect.
Bambang was reported by a legislator of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), whose victory in the regent election was annulled by the Constitutional Court.
Previously, PDI-P acting secretary general Hasto Kristiyanto alleged that KPK chairman Abraham Samad had lobbied the party's figures for him to pair with then presidential candidate Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo to contend the July 9, 2014, presidential election, a move prohibited by the KPK's code of ethics.
Many analysts have said the criminalization of KPK leaders is connected with the antigraft body's recent move to name police chief candidate Comr. Gen. Budi Gunawan as a graft suspect. (rms)
