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he Attorney General'€™s Office (AGO) said on Thursday that the National Police had yet to hand over suspended Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) leader Bambang Widjojanto, who is a perjury suspect, and the evidence mentioned in his dossier.

'€œThere has yet to be any communication with the police investigators on when they will hand over the suspect and evidence,'€ AGO spokesman Amir Yanto told The Jakarta Post.

Although the AGO declared Bambang'€™s case dossier complete in May, the National Police'€™s recently retired director for special economic crimes, Victor E. Simanjuntak, said the police force was waiting until Zulfahmi Arsyad had been sentenced in the same case before handing over the suspect and evidence.

The Central Jakarta District Court sentenced Zulfahmi to seven months in jail for his role in abetting Bambang, who at the time worked as a lawyer handling an election dispute heard by the Constitutional Court in 2010, by encouraging witnesses to commit perjury during a court hearing.

Amir explained that according to the Criminal Law Procedures Code (KUHAP), the AGO did not have the authority to demand that the evidence and suspect be handed over in order for the prosecutors to prepare to go to court.

'€œAll we can do is wait. It is up to the investigators when they want to hand everything over,'€ he said.

According to the KUHAP, investigators should hand over evidence and suspects as soon as possible after the AGO declares the case dossier complete.