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he Attorney General’s Office (AGO) detained graft suspect La Nyalla Mattalitti after four hours of questioning on Wednesday.

He will spend 20 days in the AGO’s detainment center in Salemba, Central Jakarta, before transferring to the East Java Prosecutor’s Office, which declared La Nyalla, the chairman of the Indonesian Soccer Association (PSSI), a suspect in a corruption case.

On April 12, the Surabaya District Court canceled La Nyalla’s status as a suspect following a pretrial motion filed by his relatives. However, the prosecutor’s office renamed him a suspect within less than 12 hours based on new evidence.

La Nyalla’s lawyer Aristo Pangaribuan said that his client would respect the decision made by the prosecutor’s office.

“It is the prosecutor’s right to name my client again as a suspect. Let us see how this case develops in trial,” he said as quoted by kompas.com.

La Nyalla, who is also the head of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s (Kadin) East Java Chapter, is purportedly involved in a corruption case concerning a Rp 5.3 billion (US$387,384) grant from the East Java administration to Kadin for the purchase of shares in province-owned Bank Jatim in 2012.

La Nyalla, the nephew of Supreme Court justice chief Hatta Ali, allegedly fled to Singapore after ignoring a summons from the prosecutor’s office in March. He arrived in Indonesia on Tuesday after Singaporean authorities deported him for having overstayed his visa.