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Police arrest KPK deputy chief Bambang Widjojanto over election dispute
Jakarta Globe - January 23, 2015
Bambang was taken by police on Friday morning when he was taking his children to school. KPK deputy for corruption prevention Johan Budi could not confirm where Bambang had been taken.
"It's true, [Bambang] was taken by the National Police's crime investigation unit [Bareskrim]. Maybe he is now at Bareskrim [the police's detectives unit]," Johan said.
The Jakarta Globe could not confirm this, but National Police spokesman Insp. Gen. Ronny F. Sompie said Bambang had indeed been arrested. "The evidence we collected consists of documents, witnesses and experts' testimonies," Ronny said.
It is understood that police have arrested Bambang on the charge that he instructed witnesses to perjure themselves at a Constitutional Court hearing in 2010. During that case Bambang served as a lawyer for candidates Ujang Iskandar and Bambang Purwanto in a district head election in West Kotawaringin, Central Kalimantan.
The police and KPK have a long-standing dispute, which escalated again when Comr. Gen. Budi Gunawan was named a suspect by the KPK on Jan. 13. Budi, a top aide to Megawati Soekarnoputri during her presidency, was nominated to become chief of National Police by President Joko Widodo on Jan. 10, despite concerns about several suspicious transactions in his banks accounts, which were investigated by Indonesia's money-laundering watchdog in 2010.
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