"This week, we will decide it," he said.
Asked whether he would drop the case in public interest, the Attorney General said it was his prerogative and such an authority was in line with the recommendations of the Supreme Court and the police.
The Supreme Court and the police have referred the decision regarding the cases fully to the Attorney General.
The police, however, have expressed the hope that the cases would be taken to and settled by the court.
"As the process of investigation is over, the case should be taken to court. If the court later rules that they are not guilty, they will be set free but if they are proven guilty, they must be punished. That is how the legal system works," the chief of the national polices crime investigation, Commissioner General Anang Iskandar, said when asked about the development in the cases at the national police headquarters on Wednesday.
He said that the dossiers of the cases of Abraham Samad and Bambang Widjojanto have been submitted to the prosecutors office.
"Their cases are still being processed. The investigation has been declared as complete and investigators have done their job well. Now, it is up to the prosecutors office to take a decision," he said.
When asked whether he would be disappointed if the Attorney Generals Office finally decided to drop the cases, Anang said as far as the police was concerned, the question is not about being disappointed or not but professionalism, and the police have carried out its duties well.
The two commissioners have been declared suspects and they had to leave KPK.
Abraham was named a suspect over his alleged involvement in a forgery case of a population document by Ferriyani Lim while Bambang Widjojanto was named for having allegedly advised his client to lie while he was a lawyer, long before he was named KPK commissioner.
Many quarters have suspected that Abraham and Bambang Widjojanto were being victimized because they were named suspects after KPK declared Commissioner General Budi Gunawan as a suspect in a corruption case. That development had ensured that Budi Gunawan did not become a national police chief.
The court, however, later declared that KPK had been wrong in determining Gunawan as a suspect, setting him free of any charges. Budi Gunawan is now the deputy national police chief.
President Joko Widodo had recently ordered the agencies concerned to expedite the settlement of their cases as well as the case of KPK investigator Novel Baswedan.
The Attorney General recently decided to drop the case of Baswedan due to lack of evidence.(*)
Editor: Heru Purwanto
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