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Fri, 07/18/2008 - 23:59
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POLICE INVESTIGATING SURYANI'S PHONE CONTACT WITH GUNAWAN
Jakarta, July 18 (ANTARA) - The police have initiated an investigation into how businesswoman Artalyta Suryani was able to talk on the phone with public prosecutor Urip Tri Gunawan while they were both behind bars at different detention centers.
National Police Headquarters spokeksman Insp Gen Abubakar Nataprawira said here Friday, police wanted to know who was responsible for the breach of a rule applicable to all detainees.
The fact that Suryani had had telephone contact with Gunawan came to light when the prosecution at a court session on her bribery case on Thursday played a record of a call she made to Gunawan last July 5.
Suryani is being tried by the Corruption Court on the main charge of having bribed Gunawan with 660,000 US dollars in connecton with a BLBI (Bank Indonesia Liquidity Assistance) case involving business tycoon Syamsul Nursalim.
"It's quite possible, the police officers guarding their (Suryani's and Utomo's) cells were negligent or helped them do it," Nataprawira said. Either way, the responsible police officers would be disciplined, he said.
Under a standing police rule, people being held in police detention centers were not permitted to carry cellular phones, he explained.
With the discovery of Suryani's phone contact from behind bars, the police's leadership would intensify its supervision over officers assigned to guard prisoners, Abubakar said.
National Police Headquarters spokeksman Insp Gen Abubakar Nataprawira said here Friday, police wanted to know who was responsible for the breach of a rule applicable to all detainees.
The fact that Suryani had had telephone contact with Gunawan came to light when the prosecution at a court session on her bribery case on Thursday played a record of a call she made to Gunawan last July 5.
Suryani is being tried by the Corruption Court on the main charge of having bribed Gunawan with 660,000 US dollars in connecton with a BLBI (Bank Indonesia Liquidity Assistance) case involving business tycoon Syamsul Nursalim.
"It's quite possible, the police officers guarding their (Suryani's and Utomo's) cells were negligent or helped them do it," Nataprawira said. Either way, the responsible police officers would be disciplined, he said.
Under a standing police rule, people being held in police detention centers were not permitted to carry cellular phones, he explained.
With the discovery of Suryani's phone contact from behind bars, the police's leadership would intensify its supervision over officers assigned to guard prisoners, Abubakar said.
