Fuad and Siswono to be queried over graft case<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): Attorney General Marzuki Darusman confirmed on
\nFriday that two legislators of the People's Consultative Assembly
\n(MPR) will be summoned as witnesses in corruption cases involving
\nformer president Soeharto.<\/p>\n
Marzuki said the summons for former finance minister Fuad
\nBawazier and former minister of public housing Siswono Yudohusodo
\nwould be sent sometime next week.<\/p>\n
The two former ministers under Soeharto had been widely tipped
\nto be the anonymous persons who, according to President
\nAbdurrahman Wahid in the closing of a pro-democracy forum in Bali
\nlast week, were to be arrested for allegedly fomenting unrest in
\ntroubled provinces.<\/p>\n
However, Marzuki denied such speculation, saying that his
\noffice merely checked a list of 115 names allegedly associated
\nwith corruption with the secretary general of the House of
\nRepresentatives (DPR) in December to determine whether state
\nofficials were among them.<\/p>\n
"Every measure taken against state officials, including
\nquestioning, needs a special permit from the President. We have
\nonce mistakenly put a state official under investigation without
\nthe president's permission," he said, without elaborating.<\/p>\n
Earlier at the House, Marzuki denied that the summons was
\nlinked to the current unrest.<\/p>\n
"Such news has raised misperceptions of the lack of integrity
\nof a judiciary body, by planting in the public's mind an idea
\nthat there is a mixing of legal institutions and politics ...
\nwhile there is none," he added.(bby\/jun\/byg)<\/p>",
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