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KPK entrusts police to handle Budi Gunawan case

Jakarta Post - April 7, 2015

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Jakarta – Suspended police chief candidate Comr. Gen. Budi Gunawan will not likely stand trial, as the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has handed over his graft case to the National Police through the Attorney General's Office (AGO), to be handled in accordance with the law.

Acting deputy KPK chairman Indriyanto Seno Adjie said Tuesday that the KPK had entrusted the case to the police.

"We have entrusted the National Police with the handling of the Budi Gunawan case regardless of if he stands trial or is acquitted of the graft charges," kompas.com quoted him as saying on Tuesday.

The KPK handed over the Budi case to police through the AGO after the South Jakarta District Court invalidated Budi's suspect status in a pretrial petition filed by Budi.

KPK named Budi a suspect after receiving a report that he had received a large sum of money from a businesswoman when he was chief of the police's career and human resources development section from 2004 to 2006. Budi's alleged involvement in the graft case has sparked strong opposition to his nomination as police chief.

Despite a political endorsement from the House of Representatives, the President bowed to public pressure to drop Budi's nomination nominating acting police chief Comr. Gen. Badrodin Haiti in his place. This move was expected to end the police-KPK conflict.

Indriyanto was reluctant to comment on whether the police would be trapped by conflicting interests in handling the case. "We entrust the police to handle the Budi case independent of the possibility that the case will be dropped," he said. (rms)

Source: http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2015/04/07/kpk-entrusts-police-handle-budi-gunawan-case.html.