AGO to counter court verdict

AGO to counter court verdict

JAKARTA: Attorney General Abdul Rahman Saleh said on Thursday
he would submit a legal argument to counter the North Jakarta
district court's decision to drop a corruption case against
Golkar politician Nurdin Halid on the grounds of a "flawed
indictment".

The legal argument would be filed with the court after Nurdin
finished his appeal process, he added.

"I am still studying the case file and all the legal arguments
from the court. It's weird why Nurdin's lawyers would want to
appeal even though the court has dropped the charges," Abdul
Rahman said.

He said that unlike police, the Attorney General's Office
(AGO) would not launch an internal probe into prosecutors over
the flawed indictment.

"The prosecutors did make any mistake. It was the police who
conducted the investigation, not us. We just received documents
from them," Abdul Rahman said. --JP