"The process of ASs and BWs cases are still continuing as there is no legal reason that could stop it," deputy national police chief Commissioner General Badrodin Haiti said.
Badrodin who was recently named by President Joko Widodo as the national police chief candidate said the postponement would last until the situation became conducive again.
He said the postponement could last for one or two months but the judicial process would not be stopped.
Badrodin denied that he had made an agreement with the acting chief commissioner of anti-graft agency KPK and the attorney general to stop the process of investigation of the cases of non-active KPK commissioners.
On Wednesday BW came to the crime investigation department not to have him being questioned but to extend a letter from KPK acting chief Taufiqurachman Ruki while he was actually scheduled to be examined as a witness for suspect Zulfahmi Arsyad.
In the letter Ruki demands stoppage of investigation of non-active KPK commissioners as well as KPK officials, which according to BW was the result of talks between the leaderships of KPK and the police as well as the attorney general, following President Joko Widodos order.
Based on the letter BW said that investigators had no right to question him.
Non-active KPK deputy Bambang Widjojanto has been named suspect by the police for allegedly ordering a witness to give a false testimony to win his client while he was a lawyer in 2010.
His naming as a suspect occurred after KPK earlier named Commissioner General Budi Gunawan a corruption suspect that finally made President Joko Widodo to cancel his candidacy as national police chief.
The police recently named Zulfahmi who is the close friend of Kotawaringing Barat district head Ujang Iskandar who Bambang Widjajanto defended in an election dispute in 2010 that he finally won.(*)
Editor: Heru Purwanto
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