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Panel to rule on Patrialis' alleged ethics breach next week
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Constitutional Court judge Patrialis Akbar leaves a press conference after being questioned by investigators of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) in a case of alleged bribery on Jan 27 in Jakarta. (Antara/Muhammad Adimaja)
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n ethics panel plans to announce next Monday its decision on an alleged ethical breach by Patrialis Akbar, a Constitutional Court justice who was recently arrested on bribery charges.
The five-member panel will also officially decide Patrialis' fate on the Constitutional Court bench. Following his arrest, Patrialis tendered his resignation, but the panel's ruling is needed for the government to begin the vetting process to find his replacement.
"We are trying our best [to work fast] in making a decision that will be brought to the Constitutional Court, so that the court would soon be able to give its final word to the President [on Patrialis' dismissal]," said Sukma Violetta, an ethics panel member who is also a deputy head of the Judicial Commission.
(Read also: Lawyer challenges KPK’s arrest of Constitutional Court justice)
In total, the closed-door ethics hearing has heard eight witnesses, including Manahan Sitompul and I Dewa Gede Palguna, two fellow justices who served on a three-member panel handling a judicial review of the cattle and husbandry law, which was at the center of the alleged bribing of Patrialis. (evi)
