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Tue, 06/17/2008 - 15:02
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AGO BEGINS GRILLING JUNIOR ATTORNEY GENERAL
Jakarta, June 17 (ANTARA) - A supervision team of the Attorney General's Office (AGO) on Tuesday began questioning Junior Attorney General for Civil and State Administrative Cases (Jamdatun) Untung Udji Santoso over his bugged conversations with Artalyta Suryani, a businesswoman being tried for allegedly bribing a public prosecutor investigating a BLBI (Bank Indonesia Liquidity Assistance) case.
Santoso arrived at the building of the Junior Attorney General for Supervision (Jamwas) at 9 am but he did not make many comments on the questioning over the alleged bribery.
Amir Hasan and Puspo Aji, members of the AGO's Commission (Komjak), who were also scheduled to attend the questioning process, were also seen.
Junior Attorney General for Supervision MS Rahardjo (Jamwas) said earlier he would involve members of the Komjak in the questioning process.
Santoso told reporters he had not prepared himself in any special way to face the investigation. "I made no special preparations for the questioning," he said.
He is to be investigated on the basis of intercepted telephone conversations Suryani had held with several AGO officials.
The bugged conversation record was revealed in Monday's corruption criminal court proceedings.
Last March, Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) agents caught Urip Tri Gunawan red-handed receiving a bribe of US$660,000 from Artalyta Suryani in a house in South Jakarta.
Gunawan is the former head of a team of 35 prosecutors who had investigated the BLBI case.
The BLBI refers to emergency liquidity credits extended by BI, the central bank, to commercial banks during the financial crisis which began in mid 1997.
The credits were extended under the government's blanket guarantee program. Of the Rp144.5 trillion of BLBI loans issued since 1997, Rp51.7 trillion had turned bad.
The government had since tried to solve the BLBI problem but has met with still unsurmounted difficulties to fully recover the state assets.
Santoso arrived at the building of the Junior Attorney General for Supervision (Jamwas) at 9 am but he did not make many comments on the questioning over the alleged bribery.
Amir Hasan and Puspo Aji, members of the AGO's Commission (Komjak), who were also scheduled to attend the questioning process, were also seen.
Junior Attorney General for Supervision MS Rahardjo (Jamwas) said earlier he would involve members of the Komjak in the questioning process.
Santoso told reporters he had not prepared himself in any special way to face the investigation. "I made no special preparations for the questioning," he said.
He is to be investigated on the basis of intercepted telephone conversations Suryani had held with several AGO officials.
The bugged conversation record was revealed in Monday's corruption criminal court proceedings.
Last March, Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) agents caught Urip Tri Gunawan red-handed receiving a bribe of US$660,000 from Artalyta Suryani in a house in South Jakarta.
Gunawan is the former head of a team of 35 prosecutors who had investigated the BLBI case.
The BLBI refers to emergency liquidity credits extended by BI, the central bank, to commercial banks during the financial crisis which began in mid 1997.
The credits were extended under the government's blanket guarantee program. Of the Rp144.5 trillion of BLBI loans issued since 1997, Rp51.7 trillion had turned bad.
The government had since tried to solve the BLBI problem but has met with still unsurmounted difficulties to fully recover the state assets.
