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National scene: Prosecutors reject dossier on Samad, again
JAKARTA: The South Sulawesi Prosecutorsâ Office has again returned to the police the case dossier of Abraham Samad, the former chairman of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), who was accused of counterfeiting identity card documents of a woman known as Feriyani Lim
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AKARTA: The South Sulawesi Prosecutors' Office has again returned to the police the case dossier of Abraham Samad, the former chairman of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), who was accused of counterfeiting identity card documents of a woman known as Feriyani Lim.
'[On Thursday] we handed back the dossier to police investigators,' said Muhammad Yunus from the South Sulawesi Prosecutors' Office in Makassar on Friday.
Yunus said that based on what was presented to the Attorney General's Office, the case built by South and West Sulawesi Police did not yet meet the requirements set by prosecutors. He declined to give any more detail.
Previously however, he had said that the testimony made by Feriyani, also a suspect in the case, should be compared to the testimony of a witness known as Sukriansyah Latief, because there were differences in their respective testimonies regarding the role of Abraham Samad.
Both Abraham and Feriyani were accused of counterfeit when processing the ID of Feriyani, contravening both the Criminal Code and Law No. 23/2006 on population administration.
The same dossier was returned to the police three times before: on May 6, June 18 and July 28 of this year.
The police in Makassar had named Abraham a suspect in connection to his alleged involvement in the fraudulent issue of ID and family cards to Ferriyani Lim, from West Kalimantan, to enable her to apply for a passport in 2007.
Abraham and former KPK deputy chairman Bambang Widjojanto were investigated by the police after the KPK named then police chief candidate Comr. Gen. Budi Gunawan a graft suspect. Budi was announced as a graft suspect one day before he underwent his screening by House Commission III overseeing legal affairs, on Jan. 1.
