Jakarta – In a dramatic twist, the National Police finally admitted that they do not actually have recordings and footage showing that two deputies of the anti-graft agency received bribes.

Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) deputies Bibit Samad Riyanto and Chandra Hamzah were charged by the National Police in 2009 with extortion for allegedly receiving Rp 5.1 billion ($571,000) in payoffs from businessman Anggodo Widjojo.

Anggodo is now on trial for attempted bribery and obstruction of justice and is being prosecuted by the KPK.

National Police chief detective Comr. Gen. Ito Sumardi said that the police only had the call data record (CDR), but not the actual recordings. "We don't have any recordings, but we have a CDR," Ito told news station Metro TV on Wednesday, adding that the CDR would be handed over to the Anti-Corruption Court.

"We will have to see first if the evidence is related or not. It is not a crime for a person to make a phone call to another person," Ito added.

He said that the CDR contained corresponding phone numbers as well as the duration of each conversation and the incoming or outgoing SMS text messages complete with the dates and time.

The Anti-Corruption Court had attempted to resolve an apparent legal quandary over the case stemming from the conflicting arguments of the two law-enforcement bodies.

The court ordered both sides to disclose all of their evidence in the case. However, the police failed to present 64 wiretapped conversations they said they had recorded between an official at the anti-graft commission and a suspected middleman at Anggodo's trial last week.

"If the National Police are confident the recordings do exist, then there should be no problem disclosing the recordings. Failure to do so would mean that they are defying a court order," Hasril Hertanto, a legal analyst from the University of Indonesia, told the Jakarta Globe.

"Unless the recordings don't exist. If so, then police have made empty claims to justify their move to undermine the KPK," he added.