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View all search resultsSetya Novanto to face more questioning on Thursday
Suspicious: Golkar Party politician Setya Novanto talks to journalists after submitting his resignation as House speaker at a plenary meeting at the House complex in Senayan, Central Jakarta, on Dec
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Suspicious: Golkar Party politician Setya Novanto talks to journalists after submitting his resignation as House speaker at a plenary meeting at the House complex in Senayan, Central Jakarta, on Dec. 18, 2015. (Kompas.com/Ihsanuddin) (Kompas.com/Ihsanuddin)
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span class="caption">Suspicious: Golkar Party politician Setya Novanto talks to journalists after submitting his resignation as House speaker at a plenary meeting at the House complex in Senayan, Central Jakarta, on Dec. 18, 2015. (Kompas.com/Ihsanuddin)
The Attorney General's Office (AGO) has said it scheduled another questioning session on Thursday for former House of Representatives speaker Setya Novanto.
Setya was scheduled to account for alleged corruption related to the contract extension of gold and copper mining firm Freeport Indonesia at 8 a.m. at the AGO's Oval Building in Jakarta.
'He [Setya] confirmed that he would attend the questioning session,' said AGO junior attorney for special crimes Arminsyah on Wednesday.
Setya fulfilled an AGO summons for a second questioning session on Wednesday.
"Pak Novanto attended the questioning session to respond to several questions left unanswered during his previous session," Setya's lawyer, Firman Wijaya, said as quoted by tribunnews.com on Wednesday.
In his questioning session last week, the Golkar Party politician answered 22 questions. 14 questions were left unanswered.
After answering 22 questions, Setya reportedly asked for a postponement, claiming that he had to depart to West Nusa Tenggara on official duty.
During last week's session, Setya was questioned about a suspected conversation between Freeport president director Maroef Sjamsoeddin and businessman Riza Chalid in Jakarta in July 2015. Setya was also allegedly involved in the conversation. During the questioning session, the lawmaker denied that the voice heard on an audio recording of the meeting was his own.
'He denied it. He said it was not his voice,' said Arminsyah as quoted by kompas.com at his office after Setya's questioning session on Feb.4.
Arminsyah said it was Setya's right to answer the questions of investigators in whichever way he wanted to. The most important thing, Arminsyah argued, was that AGO investigators would continue to look for evidence that there was corruption involved in the negotiations surrounding Freeport's contract extension.
Arminsyah said investigators had asked Maroef and an expert from the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) to listen to the recording. Both witnesses said that the voice on the recording was Setya's.
Setya failed to meet with the AGO on three occasions before he finally agreed to attend his first questioning session last Thursday. (ebf)(+)
