I said that actually Sambo conceived a scenario to make people confident that there had been a shootout (at his residence) so (he) pre-conditioned (the case) by contacting a few people. 
Jakarta (ANTARA) - Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal, and Security Affairs, Mahfud MD, on Thursday complied with a summons from the House of Representatives’ (DPR’s) Ethics Council (MKD) to clarify the murder charge against Inspector General Fredy Sambo.

Sambo is the former chief of the professional and security division of the National Police.

"I said that actually, Sambo conceived a scenario to make people confident that there had been a shootout (at his residence) so (he) pre-conditioned (premeditated the murder of Brigadier Nofriansyah Yosua Hutabarat, or Brigadier J) by contacting a few people," Mahfud, who is also chief of the National Police Commission, said in the MKD meeting room in Jakarta on Thursday.

"The few people are my work partners. I picked their names. Some of the few people are DPR members but I didn't mention their names," he added.

Mahfud said he never told the public that he knew DPR members were involved in conceiving the scenario to engineer the case involving Sambo.

He said he only knew Sambo had contacted some people.

He added that he had sought confirmation from the DPR members but had received no response from them. He, however, refused to mention their names.

"I didn't mention (their names) because I didn't know whether the names I had picked would be tried and I ought not to make it public for several reasons,” he said.

The people who Sambo contacted did not commit violations so why must they be tried, he asked.

He said the issue is over because when he contacted them they did not respond.

“But, I will make sure and prove that Sambo and his men have conducted a maneuver to make the people confident. The parties that (I) have contacted are Kompolnas (the National Police Commission), Komnas HAM (the National Commission on Human Rights), and several editors-in-chief," he added.

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