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KPK to present evidence during Setya's pretrial hearing
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Combating graft: Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) spokesperson Febri Diansyah (left), together with Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) spokesman Yudi Ramdan Budiman, gives a press statement on a graft case implicating a BPK auditor at the antigraft body’s headquarters in Jakarta on Sept. 22. (Antara/Hafidz Mubarak A.)
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he Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) plans to present evidence related to the high-profile electronic identity (e-ID) graft case implicating House of Representatives Speaker Setya Novanto during a pretrial hearing at the South Jakarta District Court on Monday.
Setya filed a pretrial motion with the court to challenge the KPK's move to name the Golkar Party chairman a suspect.
The antigraft body's legal representatives in the hearing are set to bring more than 200 documents, which they claim will support the KPK's decision to name Setya as a suspect.
"These documents will provide the construction of the case, including indications of Setya's alleged roles [in the case]," KPK spokesman Febri Diansyah said in a statement on Sunday.
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On Friday, Cepi Iskandar, the single judge in the hearing, rejected an objection raised by the KPK in which the antigraft body argued that Setya’s questioning of the status of the antigraft body’s investigators was invalid.
KPK legal bureau head Setiadi said that Setya’s legal team should have questioned the status of the commission’s investigators at the Jakarta Administrative Court, not by means of a pretrial motion.
But the judge said the status of KPK investigators, which had been questioned by Setya and his legal team, was not related to civil service-related administrative disputes, thus Setya's claim was relevant to the pretrial motion. (bbs)
