Fairness urges in graft probe<\/p>\n
Muninggar Sri Saraswati, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta<\/p>\n
Transparency International Indonesia has urged the Attorney
\nGeneral's Office (AGO) not to single out certain individuals in
\ninvestigating a graft scandal at the Ministry of Religious
\nAffairs.<\/p>\n
The call was made after the Central Jakarta Prosecutor's
\nOffice named former auditor of the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK)
\nKhairiansyah Salman, who recently won the Transparency
\nInternational Integrity Award, as a suspect in the case, which
\nalso involves former minister Said Agil Husein Al Munawar.<\/p>\n
Todung Mulya Lubis, the chairman of Transparency
\nInternational Indonesia, said on Wednesday that prosecutors must
\ncomplete their investigation without discrimination.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors only named Khairiansyah, who was the whistle-
\nblower in a high profile bribery case involving a member of the
\nGeneral Elections Commission (KPU) that eventually led to the
\ninvestigation of a series graft cases within the commission, and
\nthree other BPK auditors as suspects for obtaining kickbacks from
\nthe ministry.<\/p>\n
But according to the charges made against former minister
\nSaid, the ministry paid a sum of money to 19 BPK auditors to
\ncover up the graft case. Khairiansyah, however, returned the
\nmoney to the state.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, Todung said Transparency International Indonesia
\nhad no authority to withdraw the award given to Khairiansyah, but
\nwould report the case against him to Transparency International
\nheadquarters in Berlin.
\n Khairiansyah, who is under protection from the Corruption
\nEradication Commission (KPK), has been suspended from his
\nposition as the antigraft desk manager of the Aceh
\nReconstruction Body (BRR) after he was named a suspect in the
\ngraft case.<\/p>",
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