Agus Triyono – Former antigraft czar and convicted murderer Antasari Azhar on Monday lost his bid for a review of his murder trial and the police investigation that led up to it.

Supreme Court judge Suhadi announced the ruling at a press conference, but declined to explain the reasoning behind the decision. Suhadi said the decision to deny a case review was arrived at unanimously, and that "the basis for the consideration will be published in two or three days."

Antasari, former chairman of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), is serving 18 years for the murder of businessman Nasrudin Zulkarnaen.

Antasari's attorney, Juniver Girsang, said last November that a case review was warranted in light of a threatening text message sent to Nasrudin in the days before his death in a drive-by shooting in March 2009.

The message, Juniver alleged, did not originate from his client's number. "We've been notified by the National Police's detectives unit that my client's report on the matter has been handed over to the Jakarta Police, so we're asking the police to immediately find out who the true sender of that message was," he said in November.

Juniver said it was important to resolve the issue because of the significance of the text message, among other pieces of evidence and witness testimony, in leading to Antasari's conviction in February 2010.

The message to Nasrudin read: "Only you and I know of this matter. If it gets blown up, you know the consequences."

Prosecutors alleged that Antasari, the chairman of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) at the time, ordered Nasrudin killed over a love triangle involving Nasrudin's third wife.

Critics, however, have long contended that the case against Antasari was trumped up in a bid to undermine the antigraft agency. Even the victim's brother, Andi Syamsudin, has highlighted several irregularities in the police's initial investigation of Antasari and the credibility of some of the witnesses in the trial.