Graft convict Susno Duadji is now in detention after surrendering to authorities on Thursday evening.

"That's correct. He came last night and is now being detained in Cibinong," Comr. Gen. Sutarman, the National Police's chief of detectives, told BeritaSatu.com.

Previously, Susno, a retired chief of detectives at the National Police, was declared a fugitive after successfully eluding prosecutors. AGO prosecutors arrived at Susno's Bandung, West Java, home on April 24 to force the former West Java Police chief to honor a two-year-old jail sentence.

Instead, Susno fled the scene under the protection of the West Java Police and the Crescent Star Party's (PBB) Hizbullah Brigade and disappeared.

The South Jakarta District Court convicted Susno of two counts of corruption in March of 2011, sentencing the once-prominent cop to three years, six months in prison.

He was found guilty of misappropriating Rp 8 billion ($823,000) in security funds in 2008 for the West Java gubernatorial election when he served as chief of the provincial police force. He also accepted a Rp 500 million bribe to influence the outcome of a legal dispute over the ownership of a Riau fish farm in 2009.

Susno filed an appeal with the Supreme Court, which upheld the lower court's ruling but failed to issue an order to detain the convict. Susno has been able to remain free for two years, arguing that police and prosecutors had no right to arrest him.

The Constitutional Court closed that loophole in November, ruling that prosecutors don't need a detention order to arrest convicted felons.

On Friday, Yusril Ihza Mahendra, a top official with the PBB, said he received a text message from Susno which explained the reason behind Susno's decision to hand himself over.

"[I turned myself in] because the purpose of bringing to the nation's attention the injustices committed by arrogant law enforcers was achieved... I took sympathetic steps by coming to the Cibinong penitentiary, even though the legal basis is wrong," Yusril quoted the text message from Susno as saying.

Yusril recalled a saying by national political figure Prawoto Mangkusasmito, which stated that if someone is being put in jail, then it must be accepted as fact.

"However, 'fact' does not mean 'truth.' Susno surrendered because he was facing the state, not because he thought it was the truth. He was up against power and popular opinion," he said.

Attorney General Basrief Arief explained how Susno ultimately surrendered.

Basrief said that on Thursday afternoon he was visited by a man named Untung Sunaryo, Susno's family attorney, who told Basrief that Susno was willing to be processed, though only by executors appointed by the Attorney General.

"I welcomed and appreciated Susno's [willingness]," Basrief said at a press conference at his office on Friday.

Untung told Basrief that Susno wanted to be detained at the Cibinong penitentiary. The Attorney General proceeded to discuss the matter with the chief of the Jakarta High Prosecutor's office, Didik Darmanto, and acting South Jakarta Prosecutor's Office head Amir Yanto about how to process Susno.

"I only told four people about the plan – I didn't even inform the deputy attorney general, the deputy attorney general for specific crime [Jampidsus] and the deputy attorney general for intelligence. Because I respected Susno's decision, I had to commit to the agreement I had with Untung," he said.

He then kept monitoring the process when the four people he appointed arrived at the Cibinong penitentiary. "Susno arrived at 11:10 p.m. The administration process went smooth and was completed at 11:30 p.m," he said.

Meanwhile, Didiek mentioned that Susno said that his presence at the penitentiary was proof that he did not escape. "He [Susno] said 'we proved that we... followed through with the law."