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Dahlan Iskan's legal team denies bribing police
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Former state enterprises minster Dahlan Iskan (second left) leaves the East Java Prosecutor's Office after being questioned in relation to a graft case. Dahlan's legal team denied on Friday that a member of the team had been arrested for bribing police officers. (Antara Photo/Didik Suhartono)
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he legal team of former state enterprises minister Dahlan Iskan has denied that one of its members had been arrested for bribing police officers.
“We don’t have a member with the initials HR,” Dahlan’s lawyer Riri Purbasari Dewi said on Friday in Surabaya as reported by kompas.com.
Riri said that in addition to herself the team consisted of Imam and Mursid Budiantoro.
Police personnel arrested HR for allegedly bribing National Police Corruption Crime Unit head Adj. Sr. Comr. Brotoseno in a sting operation on Sunday, seizing Rp 3 billion (US$230,000) from the lawyer. Earlier, the police apprehended an officer from the unit, identified only as D, in relation to the case.
(Read also: Dahlan Iskan named suspect of graft)
Police said that the lawyer had allegedly bribed the officers as the police were investigating a corruption case related to a paddy development project in Ketapang, West Kalimantan.
The East Java Police questioned Dahlan, a media mogul who owns the Jawa Pos Group, on Friday as a witness in the paddy development project graft case.
Earlier, the East Java Prosecutor’s Office named Dahlan a graft suspect over the sale of assets from a company owned by the province.
Dahlan has denied the accusation, saying he just signed a document provided by his subordinates during his term as president director of the company from 2000 to 2010. (jun)
