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ttorney General M. Prasetyo has said his office will create a fact-finding team to follow up on allegations that a prosecutor had extorted money from a suspect in a drug case.

The allegations arose following one month of investigations by an independent team comprising police members and experts, who tried to find evidence that police personnel had facilitated the business of executed drug kingpin Freddy Budiman.

While the independent team did not find evidence of police personnel involved in Freddy’s business, as alleged earlier by human rights activist Haris Azhar, they found indications of extortion by a prosecutor handling Freddy’s case. “With the facts found [by the police’s independent team], I think [we will] establish a fact-finding team to follow up on the police’s findings,” Prasetyo said as quoted by kompas.com.

The prosecutor allegedly demanded a sum of money from drug convict Tedja to have his charges changed.Tedja, also known as Rudi, was Freddy’s partner in distributing 1.4 million ecstasy pills.