Jakarta – Indonesia's attorney general has removed two of his top officials in the wake of the arrest of a top prosecutor for allegedly accepting bribes, an official said Tuesday.

Kemas Yahya Rahman, the deputy attorney general for special crimes, and Muhammad Salim, who heads the unit's investigative section, have been removed from their posts following an internal probe, attorney general spokesman B.D. Nainggolan told AFP.

Attorney General's Office prosecutor Urip Tri Gunawan was arrested on March 2 with 660,000 dollars in cash as he left the Jakarta home of Syamsul Nursalim – just days after the AGO abandoned an investigation headed by Gunawan into the banker.

The AGO was looking into alleged misuse of billions of dollars in bailouts during the Asian economic crisis a decade ago. The internal probe was launched on March 10 following Gunawan's arrest.

"The consideration relates to the credibility of the special crime team," Attorney General Hendarman Supandji was quoted by the Koran Tempo as telling reporters over the replacement of the two officials. He gave no details.

Supandji said they would be given postings that do not put them in direct contact with the public.

Nursalim's Bank Dagang Negara Indonesia owes the government a total of 30.9 trillion rupiah (3.37 billion dollars) in so-called liquidity funds handed out by the central bank in 1998 in the midst of the Asian economic crisis.

Bank assets confiscated and sold by the state to repay the debt only yielded about 1.8 trillion rupiah.

In dropping the investigation into Nursalim last month, Rahman said the bank's inability to repay its debts could be excused due to the economic difficulties that followed the crisis, which began in 1997.

Bank Indonesia, the central bank, doled out almost 145 trillion rupiah (15.8 billion dollars) during the crisis. State auditors said that they have found that 80.4 trillion rupiah, distributed to 48 banks, was embezzled.