Heru Andriyanto – The Attorney General's Office on Tuesday ridiculed claims by a lawyer that prosecutors and the police had conspired to target officials in the Corruption Eradication Commission, calling it groundless gossip that did not warrant a response.

Ahmad Rifai, a lawyer for the commission, known as the KPK, on Tuesday said he had secured an audio recording in which several officials from the AGO and the police allegedly discussed a plot to prosecute KPK officials.

"When the recording is played, I'm sure it will shock the public to hear how law enforcement works," Rifai said.

AGO spokesman Didiek Darmanto said, "the office will refrain from commenting on groundless gossip."

When asked by reporters to confirm the existence of the recording, Didiek said, "you must direct your questions to the KPK official who claimed to be in possession of that recording. For us, it's just a rumor and we don't want to comment on it."

The police recently identified two KPK deputies, Chandra M Hamzah and Bibit Samad Rianto, as suspects in a case allegedly involving corruption and abuse of power.

"Everyone has the right to speak, but as far as the [Chandra and Bibit] case is concerned, we would prefer to wait for progress in the police investigation," Didiek added.

He said the AGO had concluded its examination of documents implicating Bibit and Chandra and would return them to police for review.

"The documents were incomplete, so we will return them to the police along with some suggestions from prosecutors for improvements," Didiek said.

"As for Chandra, we have already returned his d o cuments to the police and are waiting for their response."

Chandra and Bibit have been accused by police of taking bribes from a fugitive graft suspect and abusing their powers in the use of travel bans against graft suspects. They have been suspended from the antigraft agency.

However, the police on Friday released Ary Muladi – the man they believe to be the middleman in the case – due to a lack of evidence. He was suspected of directing $404,000 and 124,000 Singapore dollars ($89,210) from businessman Anggoro Widjaja to the KPK officials.

Anggoro is wanted by the KPK over a Forestry Ministry corruption case related to his company, PT Masaro Radiokom.

Meanwhile, Ary's lawyers recently said their client had never met Chandra and Bibit in person and delivered the money to a businessman identified as Yulianto, who is at still large.