Non-Active Chief Of Anti-Graft Agency Detained

Makassar, S Sulawesi (Antara Bali) - Non-active chief of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Abraham Samad was detained after questioning by police for seven hours.

"Suspect AS's detention was done according to a regulation based on certain objective and subjective factors," Director of Crime Investigation of the South-West Sulawesi Regional Police Command Senior Commissioner Joko Hartanto said here on Tuesday.

According to Joko, Samad was arrested in connection with a 2007 case involving the forgery of Feriyani Lim's residential administration documents.

Joko noted that the decision to detain Samad was based on certain subjective and objective considerations. The subjective consideration was the fear that he will flee, repeat the crime or temper with evidence, while the objective one was the Code of Criminal Procedures, which states that a suspect facing more than five years in jail can be detained.

"Abraham Samad faces more than five years in jail. He has been kept in detention for further investigation and it is in line with the Code of Criminal Procedures," he explained.

Samad's questioning started at 1 P.M. in the presence of dozens of lawyers from the Sulawesi Anti-Corruption Committee (ACC).

Earlier, Samad, who is also a former ACC chief, and his lawyers had expressed the readiness to face any decision, and he was later detained.

Samad's case emerged following a report from the KPK-Police Care Institute chairman, Chairil Chaidar Said, to the National Police Command's Crime Investigation Department (Bereskrim).

Bareskrim referred the case to the South-West Sulawesi Regional Police Command on January 29, 2015, as the crime scene was in the region.

The regional police command on February 2, 2015, named Feriyani as a suspect. In protest against the police's decision, Feriyani reported Samad to Bareskrim.

In an exposition of the case at the regional police command on February 9, 2015, Samad was named suspect. Feriyani is suspected to have produced fake residential administration documents, namely a family card and an ID, while applying for a passport in Makassar in 2007.

Samad is suspected to have helped Feriyani in making the fake documents. (WDY)