"It is wrong to say that the President does not care, never summons the national police chief or the attorney general to discuss the legal process of this case (Gayus`s tax corruption case)," he said here on Friday.
Djoko said that the President had always "intervened" through meetings he had held by hearing directly reports on the development of the investigation and by pushing the legal apparatus to immediately settle the case.
"I know it because I handle political, security and legal affairs. So I am always there in the meetings with them," he said.
He said if the President had not been open to the public it was because the police was still conducting the investigation.
"It is indeed very hard to trace the flow of funds from someone, determine which tax returns that should be investigated. These have all been reported by the national police chief. This is not a difficulty but the process is still going on," he said referring to the Gayus`s case.
Djoko saw the public expectations as a challenge for the national police chief to immediately settle it.
Upon arrival from a visit to Surabaya, East Java, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono immediately held a limited meeting with National Police Chief General Timur Pradopo and Attorney General Basrief Arief to discuss the Gayus`s case and the Century Bank case.
"The President`s directive is whatever it is the Gayus`s case must be settled thoroughly by law enforcers," he said.
At the meeting held at the Halim Perdana Kusuma airport`s VVIP Room General Timur Pradopo reported the chronology of Gayus`s case from Gayus`s arrest to investigation to his trips abroad.
Djoko said President Yudhoyono would hold a special limited meeting next Monday with regard to public demand in law enforcement, which will be attended by officials concerned with political, security and legal affairs including minister of justice and human rights, the attorney general, the national police chief, the chief of the Financial Transactions Analysis and Reported Center and the presidential task force for judicial mafia syndicate eradication.(*)
Editor: Heru Purwanto
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