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105390
Mon, 02/08/2010 - 23:29
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AGO SEEKING PRESIDENTIAL NOD TO QUESTION NINE REGIONAL CHIEFS
Jakarta, Feb 8 (ANTARA) - Attorney General Hendarman Supandji said his office was still seeking presidential permission to question nine regional administration chiefs suspected of criminal offenses.
"We need to question 13 regional government heads but so far we received presidential permission to do so on four of them," Hendarman said at a hearing with the House of Representatives (DPR)'s Commission III here Monday.
Earlier, an Attorney General's Office (AGO) spokesman had said the office had already received the president's green light to take legal actions against Pasuruan Dsitrict Chief Dade Angga and Banyuwangi District Chief Ratna Ani Lestari for alleged corruption.
Questioning of the two officials by the AFO had already begun. .
Hendarman said under existing regulations, state officials, including regional district chiefs or their deputies, suspected of criminal offenses could be detained or questioned by law enforcing agencies only after written permission was obtained from the president.
So far, he claimed, the AGO had not met with any hurdles in following the rule on presidential permission to take legal action against state officials.
"We need to question 13 regional government heads but so far we received presidential permission to do so on four of them," Hendarman said at a hearing with the House of Representatives (DPR)'s Commission III here Monday.
Earlier, an Attorney General's Office (AGO) spokesman had said the office had already received the president's green light to take legal actions against Pasuruan Dsitrict Chief Dade Angga and Banyuwangi District Chief Ratna Ani Lestari for alleged corruption.
Questioning of the two officials by the AFO had already begun. .
Hendarman said under existing regulations, state officials, including regional district chiefs or their deputies, suspected of criminal offenses could be detained or questioned by law enforcing agencies only after written permission was obtained from the president.
So far, he claimed, the AGO had not met with any hurdles in following the rule on presidential permission to take legal action against state officials.
