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Tue, 06/17/2008 - 20:39
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GOLKAR NOT EYEING ATTORNEY GENERAL'S POST
Jakarta, June 17 (ANTARA) - Golkar Party Vice Chairman Agung Laksono said his party was not among those who were exerting pressure on President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to replace Attorney General Handarman Supandji.
"We are not asking the president to do so. It is a matter over which the president has a prerogative right," Laksono said here on Tuesday in connection with the alleged involvement of several junior attorneys general in a bribery case.
He said Golkar was not interfering in the matter because it involved the president's prerogative right. He denied a report saying Golkar had suggested that its cadre Muladi, currently governor of the National Resilience Insitute )Lemhanas), be named attorney general.
In the meantime, legislator Gayus Lumbuun of the House of Representatives (DPR's) Commission III which deals with legal affairs, said Supandji had to be investigated to determine whether or not he was involved in the Artlyta Suryani bribery case.
The bribery by Suryani came to light last March (March 2, 2008) when Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) agents caught public prosecutor Urip Tri Gunawan red-handed receiving US$660,000 in cash from Artalyta Suryani in a house in South Jakarta.
Gunawan was at the time head of a team of 35 public prosecutors investigating Bank Indonesia liquidity assistance debtor cases.
The Indonesian Attorney General's Office (AGO) is questioning several of its top officials for alleged links with the bribery case after a record of bugged conversations was released in last week's corruption criminal court session.
The AGO officials being investigated are Junior Attorney General for Civil and State Administrative Cases Untung Adji Santoso, Junior Attorney General for Intelligence Wisnu Subroto and former Junior Attorney General for Special Crimes Kemas Yahya Rahman.
Lask week's corruption criminal court heard a junior attorney general's bugged conversations with Artalyta Suryani, a businesswoman being tried for allegedly bribing Gunawan.
Lumbuun said he had not seen any indication so far that the attorney general was involved in the bribery scandal.
"We are not asking the president to do so. It is a matter over which the president has a prerogative right," Laksono said here on Tuesday in connection with the alleged involvement of several junior attorneys general in a bribery case.
He said Golkar was not interfering in the matter because it involved the president's prerogative right. He denied a report saying Golkar had suggested that its cadre Muladi, currently governor of the National Resilience Insitute )Lemhanas), be named attorney general.
In the meantime, legislator Gayus Lumbuun of the House of Representatives (DPR's) Commission III which deals with legal affairs, said Supandji had to be investigated to determine whether or not he was involved in the Artlyta Suryani bribery case.
The bribery by Suryani came to light last March (March 2, 2008) when Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) agents caught public prosecutor Urip Tri Gunawan red-handed receiving US$660,000 in cash from Artalyta Suryani in a house in South Jakarta.
Gunawan was at the time head of a team of 35 public prosecutors investigating Bank Indonesia liquidity assistance debtor cases.
The Indonesian Attorney General's Office (AGO) is questioning several of its top officials for alleged links with the bribery case after a record of bugged conversations was released in last week's corruption criminal court session.
The AGO officials being investigated are Junior Attorney General for Civil and State Administrative Cases Untung Adji Santoso, Junior Attorney General for Intelligence Wisnu Subroto and former Junior Attorney General for Special Crimes Kemas Yahya Rahman.
Lask week's corruption criminal court heard a junior attorney general's bugged conversations with Artalyta Suryani, a businesswoman being tried for allegedly bribing Gunawan.
Lumbuun said he had not seen any indication so far that the attorney general was involved in the bribery scandal.
