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Case against suspended corruption commission leaders passed to prosecutor
(Kompas/Lucky Pransiska)The case dossiers of suspended Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) leaders, Abraham Samad and Bambang Widjojanto, will be submitted to provincial and national prosecutors on Friday
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(Kompas/Lucky Pransiska) (Kompas/Lucky Pransiska)
(Kompas/Lucky Pransiska)
The case dossiers of suspended Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) leaders, Abraham Samad and Bambang Widjojanto, will be submitted to provincial and national prosecutors on Friday.
"The second phase submission [which includes investigation files and evidence] of Abraham and Bambang's dossiers will be carried out simultaneously on Friday," said lawyer Julius Ibrani on Thursday as quoted by Antara news agency.
Julius added that Abraham and Bambang's dossiers would be handed over from the South Sulawesi Police to the South Sulawesi Prosecutor's Office, and from the National Police Criminal Investigation Corps (Bareskrim Polri) to the Attorney's General Office (AGO), respectively.
According to Julius, Polri investigators had also sent summons letters calling on Abraham and Bambang to come to the South Sulawesi Police and to Bareskrim Polri, respectively, regarding the dossiers' second phase submission.
"Both Abraham and Bambang are ready to comply with the legal process as it is part of their responsibility as citizens," said Julius.
Abraham has been declared a suspect by the South Sulawesi Police for allegedly abusing his authority by helping a Pontianak woman, Ferriyani Lim, obtain an ID card and family card for inclusion in her passport application at the Makassar Immigration Office in 2007.
Meanwhile, Bambang was named a suspect for allegedly directing a witness to give false testimony at the Constitutional Court during the hearing of a West Kotawaringin election dispute in July 2010.
Previously, in a related case, the Central Jakarta District Court sentenced Bambang's colleague Zulfahmi Arsyad to seven months in jail for his role in aiding Bambang in 2010, who was then a lawyer working on an election dispute case before the Constitutional Court, by recruiting witnesses to give false testimonies in court. (kes)(++++)
