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AGO REPORTS INDONESIA CORRUPTION WATCH TO POLICE
Jakarta, Jan 7 (ANTARA) - The Attorney General's Office (AGO) has reported the Indonesian Corruption Watch (ICW) to the police for having publicly questioned the fact that Rp7 trillion in funds recovered from corruption cases have yet to be transferred to the state treasury.
"We reported ICW to the National Police Headquarters today," AGO spokesman Jasman Pandjaitan said here on Wednesday.
He said the AGO had taken the action "just to teach a lesson to a party that is trying to smear our image."
Pandjaitan said the AGO had actually already clarified the matter to ICW when it met with Junior Attorney General for Special Crimes Marwan Effendy some time ago.
"We gave ICW a comprehensive explanation about the matter but what is behind their action in making the information public," Pandjaitan said.
The ICW as reported in the media on January 5, 2009 had questioned matters relating to the money which had reportedly not yet been transferred to the state.
The AGO spokesman said, even President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono had not raised any question when the Atorney General mentioned the recovered funds in his speech at a function to observe Anti-Corruption Day on December 9, 2008.
He said it was not possible for the AGO to embezzle the money but it had to be understood that not all funds the office had confiscated in corruption cases was to be transferred to the state treasury "because some of the money is directly transferred to the relevant institutions."
In the meantime, ICW researcher Febridiansyah said ICW would not question the AGO's action in reporting it to the police.
"It is the AGO's right to do so," he said adding , however, that the AGO should be careful not to create the impression with the pubic that it resented criticism.
He said if the AGO wanted to be praised by the public it should perform well and not resent criticism.
"We have evidence that will unnerve all the charges the AGO has leveled against us," Febridiansyah said.
Previously, the ICW was reported by the media to have raised the question what had happened to Rp8 trillion in funds the AGO had claimed to have retrieved from corruption cases in the period 2004 - November 2008.
"We reported ICW to the National Police Headquarters today," AGO spokesman Jasman Pandjaitan said here on Wednesday.
He said the AGO had taken the action "just to teach a lesson to a party that is trying to smear our image."
Pandjaitan said the AGO had actually already clarified the matter to ICW when it met with Junior Attorney General for Special Crimes Marwan Effendy some time ago.
"We gave ICW a comprehensive explanation about the matter but what is behind their action in making the information public," Pandjaitan said.
The ICW as reported in the media on January 5, 2009 had questioned matters relating to the money which had reportedly not yet been transferred to the state.
The AGO spokesman said, even President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono had not raised any question when the Atorney General mentioned the recovered funds in his speech at a function to observe Anti-Corruption Day on December 9, 2008.
He said it was not possible for the AGO to embezzle the money but it had to be understood that not all funds the office had confiscated in corruption cases was to be transferred to the state treasury "because some of the money is directly transferred to the relevant institutions."
In the meantime, ICW researcher Febridiansyah said ICW would not question the AGO's action in reporting it to the police.
"It is the AGO's right to do so," he said adding , however, that the AGO should be careful not to create the impression with the pubic that it resented criticism.
He said if the AGO wanted to be praised by the public it should perform well and not resent criticism.
"We have evidence that will unnerve all the charges the AGO has leveled against us," Febridiansyah said.
Previously, the ICW was reported by the media to have raised the question what had happened to Rp8 trillion in funds the AGO had claimed to have retrieved from corruption cases in the period 2004 - November 2008.
