How law enforcers handle corruption cases

How law enforcers handle corruption cases

Are the police and prosecutors seriously investigating a Rp 1.3 trillion embezzlement case at state bank BNI? The answer is yes and no.

Police and prosecutors usually gather data for the case files of suspects before filing formal charges. Not for Adrian Herling Waworuntu, though. Adrian had been detained for 120 days but was later freed because police could not find any evidence of his alleged involvement in the embezzlement case.

Meanwhile, the key witness in the case, Maria Pauline Lumowa, has fled to Singapore, without any effort on the part of the police to stop her.

Adrian's release shows that he is untouchable. His case file has been changed six times, and it seems that it will never be completed.

The anticorruption commission, saying it could no longer stand how the police and prosecutors were handling the case, threatened to take over the investigation. However, before the commission was able to act, the police issued a statement that Adrian was not engaged in corruption but in money laundering, hence the commission had no authority to question him.

The law states that a man who is not willing to act as a witness in court can be jailed. However, it seems that this applies only to some people, but not to Adrian.

As such, we would like to ask the National Police chief and the attorney general how serious they are about investigating Adrian's case. -- Media Indonesia, Jakarta