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he Attorney General'€™s Office (AGO) has decided not to detain former Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) deputy chairman Bambang Widjojanto following a move by the National Police to hand over his case dossier on Friday.

Bambang, however, will be required to report to the Central Jakarta Prosecutor'€™s Office on a weekly basis until his perjury case is handed over to the court for trial.

'€œYes, we want him to report to us once a week,'€ an official with the AGO, Fransiskus Pakpahan, told reporters after receiving Bambang'€™s case dossier on Friday.

Bambang'€™s lawyer Lelyana Santosa said her team of lawyers had argued that there was no strong reason for the AGO to detain Bambang.

'€œWe refused to have him detained. He will not run away,'€ she said.

Meanwhile, speaking after handing over the dossier, newly installed director of special economic crimes Brig. Gen. Bambang Waskito said that there was sufficient proof that Bambang was guilty of perjury, as indicated by the recent sentencing of a fellow suspect in the case, Zulfahmi Arsyad.

'€œThe proof against BW [Bambang] is the same proof that has been used in a previous trial for his colleague, Zulfahmi. He has been found guilty, hasn'€™t he?'€ Waskito postulated at the National Police headquarters in South Jakarta.

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 willing to give false testimony in court.

Zulfahmi also maintained that the case against Bambang was engineered to oust him from his KPK leadership position.

In January, Bambang was arrested by the National Police for allegedly directing witnesses to provide false testimony in a 2010 election dispute hearing at the Constitutional Court, a year before he became a KPK commissioner.

Following the move against Bambang, fellow KPK commissioner Abraham Samad was declared a suspect by the South Sulawesi Police for allegedly abusing his power in 2007 to forge identification documents for a woman named Feriyani Lim.

Police pursued the two cases shortly after the antigraft body named then police chief candidate Comr. Gen. Budi Gunawan a graft suspect. At the time, Budi'€™s former subordinate Comr. Gen. Budi Waseso had recently been installed as the National Police'€™s detective division chief.

Separately, Attorney General M. Prasetyo said that a trial date had yet to be decided as prosecutors needed to look into the dossier and analyze the evidence handed over by police investigators.

'€œThere are steps that we need to take. We have to analyze [the dossier], study it and then write an indictment [before the trial],'€ he said.

Meanwhile, following Abraham'€™s failure to show up at the South and West Sulawesi Police headquarters to witness the handover of his dossier, police decided to send him another summons.

'€œThe suspect could not fulfill today'€™s summons so we will reschedule the handover of Abraham Samad'€™s case dossier for next Tuesday. The summons letter will soon be sent to the suspect,'€ South and West Sulawesi Police directorate of general crimes Sr. Comr. Khasril said.

Separately, Abraham, speaking through his lawyer Adnan Buyung Azis, said that the former KPK chairman had informed the police about his absence on Friday and that he would be available on Sept. 28.

'€œWe will just wait for the second summons. Hopefully it won'€™t be too soon so that we can organize his presence. However, we hope the police will agree to his proposal for Sept. 28,'€ he said.

Although the handover was not conducted on Friday, general crimes assistant at the South Sulawesi Prosecutor'€™s Office Muhammad Yusuf said that this was not a problem because they could receive the dossier and evidence at any time.

'€œWe have no problems with the delay. We are ready to receive the dossier any time. [Tuesday next week] is also fine,'€ he said.