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ational Police chief Gen. Badrodin Haiti has ordered police investigators to wrap up their probes into former Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) leaders Abraham Samad and Bambang Widjojanto and hand over the case evidence and dossiers to the Attorney General'€™s Office (AGO).

'€œI have already ordered that all cases that have been declared complete [by the Attorney General'€™s Office] be handed over to the prosecutors as soon as possible. If not, the cases will stall and doubts will surface,'€ he told reporters on Thursday at the National Police headquarters in South Jakarta.

Although Badrodin said he had officially given the order to expedite Bambang and Abraham'€™s cases, he claimed not to know if they had been yet.

'€œI can'€™t say for sure when [the handover will occur]. However, I have ordered the handover to be expedited,'€ he said.

Earlier this year, Bambang was arrested by the National Police'€™s detective division for allegedly directing witnesses to provide false testimony in an election dispute hearing at the Constitutional Court in 2010, a year before he became a KPK commissioner.

A former colleague of Bambang, Zulfahmi Arsyad, was recently sentenced to seven months in jail by the Central Jakarta District Court.

Abraham, meanwhile, was declared a suspect by the South Sulawesi Police for allegedly abusing his authority to forge a document that would allow a woman, Feriyani Lim, to be included on his family card so that she could apply for a passport at the Makassar Immigration Office in 2007.

The cases against the two KPK leaders arose shortly after the commission named then police chief candidate Comr. Gen. Budi Gunawan a graft suspect. At the time, Comr. Gen. Budi Waseso, a former subordinate of Budi'€™s, had recently been inaugurated as the National Police'€™s detective division chief.

Separately, Bambang'€™s lawyer, Julius Ibrani said on Thursday that he had received official notification that the dossiers would be transferred on Friday.

'€œThe handover of [the dossiers of] BW [Bambang] and AS [Abraham] will be conducted on the same day, Friday. For AS'€™ dossier, the South and West Sulawesi Police will hand the document over to the local prosecutor'€™s office while BW'€™s dossier will be transferred from the National Police'€™s detective division to the AGO,'€ he said.

According to Julius, both Bambang and Abraham have said that they will be present during the handover of the documents.

However, the head of Abraham'€™s legal team, Adnan Buyung Azis, said that the former KPK chairman would not be present on Friday, as he had a scheduling conflict .

'€œWe received the summons on Wednesday afternoon but Pak Abraham said that he could not come because he had work to do,'€ Adnan said, adding that Abraham had requested that the handover be postponed until Sept. 28.

Meanwhile, antigraft activists have criticized the police for the belated handover, saying that it was further proof that the cases against the former KPK commissioners had been manufactured as a political vendetta.

'€œIt'€™s even more glaring if you see that BW'€™s dossier was declared complete by the AGO in May, but only now is the detective division transferring it,'€ said Makassar antigraft activist Abdul Fickar Hadjar.

Although the Criminal Law Procedures Code (KUHAP) stipulates that the police force must hand over the dossier, evidence and suspects of a case as soon as possible following confirmation from the AGO that the case is complete, it does not specify a time frame in which the police force must do so.
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