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AGO TO DECIDE FATE OF PROSECUTORS IN SURYANI CASE NEXT WEEK
Jakarta, June 19 (ANTARA) - Attorney General Hendarman Supandji said a decision on what measures would be taken against a number of his subordinates currently being questioned for their possible involvement in a bribery case would be made later this week or next week.
"We hope the questioning will be finished this week, or next week at the latest, so we can have a decision (on what measures will be taken) by then," Supandji said here on Thursday.
A special Attorney General's Office (AGO) team has since early this week been interrogating two serving junior attorneys general, one former junior attorney general and 11 lower-ranking public prosecutors on their suspected links with businesswoman Artalyta Suryani who is being tried in court for allegedly bribing the head of an AGO team investigating a BLBI (Bank Indonesia Liquidity
Assistance) debtor's case.
Clues the senior AGO officials had had contacts with Suryani were obtained from a record of a telephone conversation between then Junior Attorney General Kemas Yahya Rahman and Suryani which was played in a Suryani trial session last week.
Asked what measures would be taken against the AGO officers, Supandji said a decision in this regard would have to be taken based on evidence.
"We live in a law-abiding country. There are procedures that have to be passed through. So, let's just wait for the results of the examinations," he said.
He said the sanctions could be either heavy or light.
Supandji said he had entrusted the matter to an investigating team from theJunior Attorney General for Supervision.
The AGO officers 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.
Last March, Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) agents caught Urip Tri Gunawan, the head of a 35-man AGO team investigating a BLBI case involving business tycoon Syamul Nursalim, red-handed receiving a bribe of US$660,000 from Artalyta Suryani in a house in South Jakarta. Suryani was believed to have acted on Nursalim's behalf.
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.
"We hope the questioning will be finished this week, or next week at the latest, so we can have a decision (on what measures will be taken) by then," Supandji said here on Thursday.
A special Attorney General's Office (AGO) team has since early this week been interrogating two serving junior attorneys general, one former junior attorney general and 11 lower-ranking public prosecutors on their suspected links with businesswoman Artalyta Suryani who is being tried in court for allegedly bribing the head of an AGO team investigating a BLBI (Bank Indonesia Liquidity
Assistance) debtor's case.
Clues the senior AGO officials had had contacts with Suryani were obtained from a record of a telephone conversation between then Junior Attorney General Kemas Yahya Rahman and Suryani which was played in a Suryani trial session last week.
Asked what measures would be taken against the AGO officers, Supandji said a decision in this regard would have to be taken based on evidence.
"We live in a law-abiding country. There are procedures that have to be passed through. So, let's just wait for the results of the examinations," he said.
He said the sanctions could be either heavy or light.
Supandji said he had entrusted the matter to an investigating team from theJunior Attorney General for Supervision.
The AGO officers 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.
Last March, Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) agents caught Urip Tri Gunawan, the head of a 35-man AGO team investigating a BLBI case involving business tycoon Syamul Nursalim, red-handed receiving a bribe of US$660,000 from Artalyta Suryani in a house in South Jakarta. Suryani was believed to have acted on Nursalim's behalf.
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.
