Gus Dur is clean, says AGO

JAKARTA (JP): The Attorney General's Office announced late on Monday that President Abdurrahman Wahid was not involved in two financial scandals, which have led him to be threatened with impeachment.

The office's spokesman, Muljohardjo, said that investigators had received clarification from the Sultan of Brunei that he had donated US$2 million not as a grant to the state, but as a personal charitable donation from him to the President.

President Abdurrahman has also been accused of ordering the illegal reimbursement of Rp 35 billion belonging to the State Logistics Agency (Bulog).

"In the Bulog scandal, it was only the former National Police chief, Gen. Rusdihardjo, who said so (that the President was involved in the case) while the testimony of dozens of others do not show his involvement in the case," he told a media briefing.

The President's masseur, Alip Agung Suwondo, is being tried for his part in the scandal while former Bulog deputy head Sapuan has already been sentenced to two years for graft.

Two Bulog executives have also been named suspects in the case, the chairman of Bulog employees' foundation Yanatera, Mulyono, and treasurer Yacob Ishak. (bby)