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National scene: Police insist on proceeding with Novel's case
The National Police have reiterated their commitment to proceeding with an assault case implicating Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) investigator Novel Baswedan amid public calls to drop the case
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he National Police have reiterated their commitment to proceeding with an assault case implicating Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) investigator Novel Baswedan amid public calls to drop the case.
National Police chief Gen. Badrodin Haiti said that proceeding with the case was part of an agreement that the institution made with the KPK and the Attorney General's Office (AGO) after a standoff between the police and the antigraft body earlier this year.
'There is an agreement that cases related to KPK [officials] that have entered the investigation stage [at the police] will be continued,' he said on Thursday.
Novel stands accused of shooting a robbery suspect during his tenure as Bengkulu Police detective chief in 2004. The police first reopened an investigation into Novel in 2012 after the KPK named then National Police Traffic Corps (Korlantas) chief Insp. Gen. Djoko Susilo a graft suspect.
Then president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono requested that the police drop the investigation into Novel's case to avoid worsening the standoff between the police and the KPK, but the police reopened the case right after the KPK named Comr. Gen. Budi Gunawan, a former candidate for National Police chief, currently deputy police chief, a suspect in a bribery case.
Novel was arrested in May at his residence and forced to take part in a crime scene reconstruction in Bengkulu. The second attempt to bring Novel to Bengkulu was last week.
