"We see this arrest as discriminatory," Megawati said here on Sunday.
The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) arrested the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP)`s senior cadre on Friday along with 18 other politicians.
The anti-graft body named 25 senior politicians as graft suspects last year for allegedly receiving traveler`s checks worth a total of Rp24 billion as bribes in return for supporting Miranda S Goeltom`s bid to be bank Indonesia (BI) senior deputy governor.
Megawati said that KPK should also have arrested bribe payers, not only those suspected to have received it.
Besides, KPK should also investigate a number of legal cases which had already been completed with strong pieces of evidence.
She said that two major cases that should have been investigated namely the tax fraud and Bank Century scandal which involved a bailout of Rp6.7 trillion.
"That is a big case which the government and the House of Representatives (DPR) have agreed to handle. But until now there is no serious attention to settle it," the former president said.
Previously, chairman of PDIP`s Legal Aid and Advocacy Agency Arteria Dahlan said that evidence on Nababan`s involvement in the traveler`s check case was not strong.
"There is only one witness, namely Yudi," he said.
Investigators of the KPK forcefully picked up Panda Nababan, senior PDIP politician, at Soekarno-Hatta airport on Friday.
He was picked up in connection with the KPK move to question about 25 suspects in the alleged bribery case during the election of Bank Indonesia (BI) senior deputy governor in 2004.
"Mr Panda was to leave Jakarta for Batam," his lawyer Patra H. Zein said here on Friday.(*)
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