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Thu, 06/12/2008 - 22:46
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PUBLIC PROSECUTOR'S OFFICES INCAPABLE OF HANLDING CORRUPTION CASES : ICW
Jakarta, June 12 (ANTARA) - The Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) said the handling of BLBI (Bank Indonesia Liquiidity Assistance) cases should be entrusted to the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) instead of the Attorney General's Office (AGO) as the latter had proven incapable of tackling corruption.
"Although it has set up an anti-corruption team, the AGO has proven incapable of dealing with corruption in the country," ICW researcher Febri Diannsyah said here Thursday.
Diansyah referred to what had transpired in on-going court trials of businesswoman Artalita on the charge of having bribed an AGO official over a BLBI case involving business tycoon Syamsul Nursalim.
"As shown by Artalita's conversations with a number of public prosecutors, conditions in the AGO have made it incapable of handling corruption cases," the ICW activist said.
Diansyah also said 50 percent of corruption cases handled by public prosecutor's offices during a period of one year ended with the acquittal of the defendants.
The formation of a special AGO anti-corruption team would not improve the office's performance in tackling corruption cases, he said, adding what the AGO should do was revamp itself.
Meanwhile, BLBI cases currently being handled by the AGO should be taken over by the Corruption Eradication Commission. "If BLBI cases continue to be investigated by public prosecutor's offices, they will end up in the same way (as in Syamsul Nursalim's case) with public prosectors also implicated in them," he said.
Earlier, on Friday (June 6), the AGO installed a 55-man Anti-Corruption Team one of whose tasks was to restore the office's credibility following the arrest of one of its chief BLBI case investigators, Urip Tri Gunawan, for allegedly receiving a bribe from Artalita to shelve the case.
"Although it has set up an anti-corruption team, the AGO has proven incapable of dealing with corruption in the country," ICW researcher Febri Diannsyah said here Thursday.
Diansyah referred to what had transpired in on-going court trials of businesswoman Artalita on the charge of having bribed an AGO official over a BLBI case involving business tycoon Syamsul Nursalim.
"As shown by Artalita's conversations with a number of public prosecutors, conditions in the AGO have made it incapable of handling corruption cases," the ICW activist said.
Diansyah also said 50 percent of corruption cases handled by public prosecutor's offices during a period of one year ended with the acquittal of the defendants.
The formation of a special AGO anti-corruption team would not improve the office's performance in tackling corruption cases, he said, adding what the AGO should do was revamp itself.
Meanwhile, BLBI cases currently being handled by the AGO should be taken over by the Corruption Eradication Commission. "If BLBI cases continue to be investigated by public prosecutor's offices, they will end up in the same way (as in Syamsul Nursalim's case) with public prosectors also implicated in them," he said.
Earlier, on Friday (June 6), the AGO installed a 55-man Anti-Corruption Team one of whose tasks was to restore the office's credibility following the arrest of one of its chief BLBI case investigators, Urip Tri Gunawan, for allegedly receiving a bribe from Artalita to shelve the case.
