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The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) rejected on Monday all arguments against the prosecution of National Police chief nominee Comr. Gen. Budi Gunawan, whom the antigraft body recently named a suspect in a graft case.

In the first session of a pretrial hearing to challenge Budi'€™s suspect status, his lawyers claimed the antigraft body had abused its power by naming the three-star police general a suspect without questioning him and presenting witnesses.

Your comments:

Poor President Joko '€œJokowi'€ Widodo, to have to deal with issues that happened ages before his time.

Zaki

If Budi Gunawan were caught earlier, then this problem would not have exploded.

Shasie

Working for the KPK is both the easiest and the hardest job in the world. Easiest, because all you have to do to name new graft suspects is hang pictures of high-ranking government officials on a wall and throw darts blindfolded. Hardest, because you have to deal with more daily responsibilities than you'€™d need to fill up Lake Toba 10 times over.

Yuchan

Why did the judge even bother wasting his time listening to arguments presented by the graft suspect'€™s lawyers?

Jaytee

So correct me if I am wrong, but Budi is a police officer and was even when he was in charge of the career development bureau.

And as a police officer that is a representative of the public trust, he is, therefore, a public figure. If someone'€™s real wage (not the money in brown envelops) comes from taxpayer funds or from the government, that person is a public official and damn well better act like it!

Naming a suspect takes five KPK officials? What kind of reasoning is this? If all the due process and investigation is concluded by even one KPK official, then they can sign off on the naming of the suspect as a corrupt lowlife.

And they do not need to call the person in for questioning and do not need to parade witnesses in front of the suspect.

That is especially true for a police officer, as the police have shown they have no problem protecting their own by any means necessary.

Budi, I have to say, we all know you are not the most intelligent individual, implicating your own son as a graft suspect by having people transfer millions of US dollars to his account before he was 20 for unknown reasons.

That doesn'€™t mean you have to pick a low-grade lawyer to defend you. Or is he the only person that will?

Deddy K.