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National scene: KPK tells Novel to skip police questioning
The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) instructed Novel Baswedan, an investigator who has been named suspect in an assault case, to skip police questioning on Thursday
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he Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) instructed Novel Baswedan, an investigator who has been named suspect in an assault case, to skip police questioning on Thursday.
Acting KPK deputy chairman Johan Budi said Novel had tasks to complete as an investigator and could not heed the police summons.
'Novel has other things to do so he cannot honor the summons,' said Johan on Thursday.
He did not elaborate on what activities had prevented Novel from going to the police headquarters.
The police zoomed in on KPK personnel after the antigraft body named Police Education Institute director (Lemdikpol) Comr. Gen. Budi Gunawan a suspect in a bribery case.
The force later named former KPK leaders Abraham Samad and Bambang Widjojanto suspects in separate cases as well as accused 21 KPK investigators of illegal firearms possession.
The police also reopened an investigation into Novel, who was implicated in an assault case in 2004 when he was the Bengkulu Police's chief of detectives.
Former president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono had requested in 2012 that Novel's case be postponed because of a heated conflict between the police and the KPK that arose when the antigraft body named the police's Insp. Gen. Djoko Susilo a graft suspect.
On Monday, National Police spokesman Sr. Comr. Rikwanto said the Attorney General's Office had declared Novel's case dossier complete and that he could be detained soon.
