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Budi, Bambang cases to go on
Amid the establishment of fact-finding teams, investigations into the Budi Gunawan and Bambang Widjojanto cases will go on
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Amid the establishment of fact-finding teams, investigations into the Budi Gunawan and Bambang Widjojanto cases will go on.
Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) deputy chairman Bambang, who resigned from the commission because of his status as a suspect in connection with a West Kotawaringin election dispute, stressed on Tuesday in Jakarta that the Budi case would go on, after the National Police chief candidate was named a suspect and investigators continued preparing Budi's dossier by questioning witnesses and the suspect.
He said the KPK would speed up its investigation so that the handling of the Budi case could be completed before the current KPK leaders' term of office ends in December.
The commission announced on Tuesday that it would likely use force to bring in three police officers who failed to show up at the KPK building to undergo questioning even though deputy police chief Comr. Gen. Badrodin Haiti had ordered the three to attend.
The three police officers and Budi's young son Herviano Widyatama have been barred from leaving Jakarta for a smooth, quick investigation into the case.
Meanwhile, National Police spokesman Sr. Comr. Rikwanto said that it was impossible for the investigation into Bambang's case to be suspended because all elements needed to process the case were in hand.
Bambang was named a suspect for his alleged involvement in giving fake testimony when the Constitutional Court tried the election dispute in West Kotawaringin, Central Kalimantan, in July 2014.
'The Bambang case must go on because all material evidence has been collected and the suspect has been already questioned while witnesses have been questioned,' he said as quoted by tribunnews.com.
He added that a criminal case could be dropped only if the police had no material evidence or the case had previously been investigated and brought to court.
With the mounting conflict between the police and the KPK and the widening polemic on the issue among society, President Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo was scheduled to officiate the establishment of a presidential fact-finding team to investigate the conflict.
The nine-member team, which is to be be officiated by the President in the immediate future, will be given one month to carry out an investigation and give its conclusions on recommendations for the President to end the conflict.
Meanwhile, the National Commission on Human Rights has also formed a fact-finding team to investigate allegations of human rights abuse by the National Police when the police arrested Bambang in Depok, West Java, on Friday.
