Jakarta – A lawyer for corruption suspect Budi Gunawan claims to have access to "stacks" of evidence indicating wrongdoing by graft busters, courtesy of another client – one who is currently standing trial for extortion after impersonating an antigraft official.
Fredrich Yunadi, one of several lawyers representing Budi in a case brought by the Corruption Eradication Commission, or KPK, said on Tuesday that another client, Madun, had "authentic evidence amounting to six boxes" of documents against five KPK officials.
He did not name the officials, nor did he know where Madun was being held while on trial at the South Jakarta District Court for posing as a KPK official and extorting several people.
Fredrich also denied that Madun's reported allegation was part of a wider effort to undermine the KPK after it named Budi a corruption suspect earlier this month, claiming his client only wanted to help "clean the KPK of dirty officials."
"Madun said he wanted to unveil this case but he doesn't know where to file the report. He may report this case to the Attorney General's Office or the National Police," the lawyer said.
Madun was arrested by police in October after demanding Rp 500 million ($40,100) from a public official implicated in a graft case.
If he does file a report against the KPK, it will be the latest in a series of filings that critics say is meant as a reprisal against the KPK after it named Budi a graft suspect and thwarted, at least temporarily, his bid to become the National Police chief.
Police have dug up cold cases against at least two KPK deputy chairmen, while a third may be reported to the police this week.
Bambang Widjojanto stands accused by a legislator from the Indonesian Democratic Party, or PDI-P, of compelling witnesses to perjure themselves during hearings over a district election dispute in 2010. Bambang at the time was a lawyer for one of the parties in the dispute, who was eventually declared the winner of the election. Police dropped the case after the Constitutional Court ruled on the dispute, but was refiled by the PDI-P official, Sugianto Sabran, earlier this month.
Similarly, fellow KPK deputy chairman Adnan Pandu Praja has been reported to the police by the lawyer for a timber company who accused him of illegally acquiring shares while advising the company during a management feud in 2006.
A third KPK deputy, Zulkarnain, faces the prospect of also being reported to the police, this time by a former East Java provincial legislator he helped convict back in 2008.
Joko, from the PDI-P, has put off the process of naming a new police chief. Budi previously served as the security aide to Joko's political patron, PDI-P chairwoman Megawati Soekarnoputri. Unlike Bambang, he has not opted to step down pending the KPK investigation.
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