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Court tries Dahlan's pretrial petition
The South Jakarta District Court held a hearing on Monday to try the pretrial petition filed by former CEO of state-owned company PT PLN Dahlan Iskan, who has been held suspect in connection with a central power transformer project worth Rp 1
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he South Jakarta District Court held a hearing on Monday to try the pretrial petition filed by former CEO of state-owned company PT PLN Dahlan Iskan, who has been held suspect in connection with a central power transformer project worth Rp 1.06 trillion (US$79.14 million).
The court session was presided over by Judge Lendriaty Janis and was attended by Dahlan's lawyer Yusril Ihza Mahendra and prosecutors from the Jakarta prosecutor's office.
Yusril said that his client filed the pretrial petition to examine the arguments and evidence possessed by state prosecutors, and to ascertain why they had named him a suspect in the case.
According to Yusril, the state prosecutor's office lacked adequate evidence to declare his client a suspect, and it was not an appropriate time to do so because his client was no longer president director of PT PLN.
'The charges laid against Pak Dahlan are not in line with the timing of the prosecution,' he said as quoted by kompas.com.
Yusril said Dahlan was no longer PT PLN's president-director, and that he had vacated that position as of October 26, 2012.
'We want to examine the arguments and evidence presented by investigators to name Dahlan a suspect. If the evidence is not adequate, the status of suspect must be lifted,' he said.
Dahlan has been named a suspect in a graft case related to the construction of 21 power transformers in Java, Bali and West Nusa Tenggara between 2011 and 2013. (rms)(+++)
