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AGO to hand over Budi Gunawan case to police
The Attorney Generalâs Office (AGO) will hand over the Budi Gunawan case to the National Police
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The Attorney General's Office (AGO) will hand over the Budi Gunawan case to the National Police.
'To be more effective, I, in my capacity as attorney general, will hand over Budi's dossier to the National Police to be dealt with in accordance with the law,' he said in a press conference in Jakarta on Monday.
Prasetyo made the statement moments after he received Budi's dossier from Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) leaders.
Following a meeting between KPK leaders and the AGO on Sunday, acting KPK chairman Taufiequrachman Ruki handed over Budi's case to Attorney General Praestyo at the AGO building in South Jakarta on Monday after the South Jakarta District Court invalidated the KPK's move to name head of the Police Education Institute Comr. Gen. Budi Gunawan a graft suspect. According to the 1999 Corruption Law, the KPK is not allowed to drop a graft case. Budi was named a suspect on allegations that he accepted a bribe from a businesswoman while he was chief of the career and human resources development division at the police headquarters from 2004 through 2006.
Also present at the handover were deputy police chief Comr. Gen. Badrodin Haiti, who has been nominated as police chief, Coordinating Political, Legal & Security Affairs Minister Tedjo Edhy Purdijatno, Law and Human Rights Minister Yasonna Laoly and the five KPK leaders. (rms)(++++)
