Mariel Grazella, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Mon, 01/24/2011
The Attorney General’s Office (AGO) has officially set aside the legal proceedings against two Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) deputies, Bibit Samad Rianto and Chandra M. Hamzah.
“I would like to announce that the two dossiers [against Bibit and Chandra] have been set aside,” Attorney General Basrief Arief said late on Monday.
Basrief had signed the necessary documents needed to set aside the case against Bibit and Chandra, the two KPK deputies who had been accused by corruption convict Anggodo Widjojo of abuse of power and extortion.
“We have discussed and studied the dossier, and came up [with the decision] that it would be right if [the case] was set aside for public good,” Basrief said.
Setting aside a case for the better public good, a legal tool known as deponeering, will spare the deputies from standing trial.
Basrief further said that the AGO decided to apply the deponeering move to the deputies’ case to prevent “impeding corruption eradication [efforts], which the public is really counting on”.
It would not be a problem for the AGO if certain people felt “disadvantaged” by the decision, Basrief added.
“This is the discretion of the Attorney General,” he said.
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