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Dahlan Iskan's naming as a suspect not chronological: Lawyer
Yusril Ihza Mahendra, the lawyer for a graft suspect in a case related to the development of electrical relay stations for state-owned electricity firm PLN, Dahlan Iskan, said on Monday that charges which the Jakarta Prosecutorâs Office (Kejati DKI Jakarta) had filed against his client were not chronological
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usril Ihza Mahendra, the lawyer for a graft suspect in a case related to the development of electrical relay stations for state-owned electricity firm PLN, Dahlan Iskan, said on Monday that charges which the Jakarta Prosecutor's Office (Kejati DKI Jakarta) had filed against his client were not chronological.
'Since Oct. 26, 2012, Pak Dahlan was no longer PLN president director, while charges filed by Kejati against my client related to events that occurred after that date,' Yusril said as quoted by Antara news agency in Jakarta on Monday.
Speaking to journalists at the South Jakarta District Court (PN), Yusril, who is a former law and human rights minister, said his team was still doubtful about the validity of evidence that Kejati DKI Jakarta had used to name Dahlan as a suspect.
Citing a Constitutional Court (MK) ruling, he said a suspect was someone who was believed to have committed a crime based on two pieces of evidence considered valid according to prerequisites stipulated in articles 183 and 184 of the Criminal Code.
'The problem is, the two pieces of evidence were obtained when Pak Dahlan was questioned as a witness on June 5, during which he was later named a suspect. My question is, where did Kejati get the two pieces of evidence from?' said Yusril.
He said the evidence should have been obtained as the result of an investigation, not a pre-investigation which was still general in nature. It is only during an investigation that prosecutors can name someone as a suspect.
'If the two pieces of evidence were obtained from outside an investigation process, then this violates the MK ruling on prerequisites in the naming of a suspect,' said Yusril.
Kejati DKI Jakarta named former PLN president director Dahlan, who is also a former state-owned enterprises minister, as a suspect in a graft case surrounding the development of Rp 1.06 trillion (US$78.44 million) worth of PLN electrical relay stations in Java, Bali and Nusa Tenggara in June.
In total, Kejati has named 15 persons as suspects in the case, including nine PLN officials who have been detained. (ebf)
