VP backs legal action against prosecutor
March 19th, 2008 | by Admin |VP backs legal action against prosecutor
Vice President Jusuf Kalla said Tuesday the dismissed deputy attorney general for special crimes, Kemas Yahya Rahman, deserved punishment for his possible link with a major bribery case.
Kalla said Kemas should be held responsible as the supervisor of state prosecutor Urip Tri Gunawan, who was arrested for allegedly accepting a bribe.
“As a supervisor, he must be held responsible,” the Vice President said after chairing a limited Cabinet meeting at the Presidential Office in Jakarta.
“The future implication is that any official, no matter who they are, will be sanctioned if he or she commits a crime.”
Kalla said the public should view the dismissal of Kemas as the government getting tough on crime, without discrimination.
The Vice President was speaking a day after Kemas and M. Salim, who is the director of investigations at the Attorney General’s Office, were removed from their posts over the Urip bribery case.
Their removal, announced by Attorney General Hendarman Supandji, follow the arrest of Urip on March 2 by investigators from the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK).
Urip is being detained for allegedly receiving a US$660,000 bribe from businesswoman Artalita Suryani, who is thought to be connected to tycoon Sjamsul Nursalim.
Nursalim was the target of an AGO investigation, led by Urip, over his alleged embezzlement of Bank Indonesia liquidity assistance (BLBI) funds.
The KPK is holding Artalita who has denied any links with Nursalim.
Source : thejakartapost
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