Jakarta (Antara Bali) - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) respects the National Police Headquarters' move to file a pre-trial suit against the anti-graft body for naming police chief hopeful Comsr. Gen. Budi Gunawan suspect in a graft case.
"We heard they have filed a pre-trial suit and the KPK respects it. If the KPK receives a copy of the pre-trial suit we will study it seriously," KPK Deputy Chairman Bambang Widjojanto said here on Tuesday.
Chief of the National Police's law division Insp. Gen. Moechgiyarto confirmed earlier in the day that the police filed a pre-trial suit with the South Jakarta district court against the KPK on Monday (January 19).
"It is true that we filed a suit with the South Jakarta district court yesterday," he said in a short message text.
The pre-trial will verify whether or not the naming of Comsr. Gen. Budi Gunawan who is now head of the National Police's Education Institute a suspect in a graft case is valid.
"The KPK will stand the pre-trial in conformity with the existing law," Bambang said.
Bambang believed that the KPK has adequate evidence to name Budi Gunawan a suspect although President Joko Widodo has nominated him as a single candidate for national police chief.
On January 13, the KPK named Commr. Gen. Budi Gunawan a graft suspect in connection with certain rewards he allegedly received through suspicious transactions.
The KPK alleged that Budi Gunawan received the rewards while he was chief of the National Police Headquarters' career development bureau between 2003 and 2006 and held other posts at the National Police Headquarters.
President Joko Widodo then postponed the inauguration of Budi Gunawan as national police chief to give him a chance to resolve the legal case.
On January 16, the President issued two decrees dismissing Gen. Sutarman as national police chief and appointing Deputy Police Chief Commr. Gen. Badrodin Haiti as acting national police chief. (WDY)
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"We heard they have filed a pre-trial suit and the KPK respects it. If the KPK receives a copy of the pre-trial suit we will study it seriously," KPK Deputy Chairman Bambang Widjojanto said here on Tuesday.
Chief of the National Police's law division Insp. Gen. Moechgiyarto confirmed earlier in the day that the police filed a pre-trial suit with the South Jakarta district court against the KPK on Monday (January 19).
"It is true that we filed a suit with the South Jakarta district court yesterday," he said in a short message text.
The pre-trial will verify whether or not the naming of Comsr. Gen. Budi Gunawan who is now head of the National Police's Education Institute a suspect in a graft case is valid.
"The KPK will stand the pre-trial in conformity with the existing law," Bambang said.
Bambang believed that the KPK has adequate evidence to name Budi Gunawan a suspect although President Joko Widodo has nominated him as a single candidate for national police chief.
On January 13, the KPK named Commr. Gen. Budi Gunawan a graft suspect in connection with certain rewards he allegedly received through suspicious transactions.
The KPK alleged that Budi Gunawan received the rewards while he was chief of the National Police Headquarters' career development bureau between 2003 and 2006 and held other posts at the National Police Headquarters.
President Joko Widodo then postponed the inauguration of Budi Gunawan as national police chief to give him a chance to resolve the legal case.
On January 16, the President issued two decrees dismissing Gen. Sutarman as national police chief and appointing Deputy Police Chief Commr. Gen. Badrodin Haiti as acting national police chief. (WDY)
Editor : I Gusti Bagus Widyantara
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