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Lawmaker vows to go to court if AGO chooses deponeering

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Jakarta Post - November 11, 2010

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – A lawmaker from the United Development Party, Achmad Yani, said he would bring the Attorney General's Office to court for ending a prosecution process of corruption cases involving Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) chairmen.

He claimed that many of his fellow lawmakers in the law commission had also shared the same view on this. "We will use any tools allowed to refuse the idea," he said.

He added that if the interim attorney general insisted on halting the prosecution process for the sake of the public interest, also known as deponeering, he would "challenge the decision to the Constitutional Court myself".

He went further to say that any decision coming from interim Attorney General Darmono would be a big violation as an interim attorney general was only a popular term for "administrative caretaker".

"The prosecutor law allows only an attorney general to issue deponeering. It doesn't say anything about an interim attorney general," he said.

Interim Attorney General Darmono had earlier said that the AGO intended to halt the prosecution process of Bibit Samad Rianto and Chandra Marta Hamzah, two KPK deputy leaders who were charged over authority abuse and receiving bribes.

However, Darmono said before executing the decision that the AGO planned to consult first with related state institutions.

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