Police release Depok graft suspects

Police release Depok graft suspects

JAKARTA: Jakarta Police released 18 Depok councillors
allegedly involved in graft from detention on Wednesday afternoon
after detaining them for more than a month and put them under
city arrest for 20 days.

"We believe they will not run away and destroy any evidence.
Besides, we have finished our investigation on them," the city
police special crime detectives chief, Sr. Comr. Edmon Ilyas,
said on Thursday.

He added that the councillors' families had requested the
release of the suspects as it was approaching Ramadhan, which
starts on Friday.

Edmon said the suspects were not allowed to go out of town.
"But they must go to Jakarta every Thursday to report to us."

"However, we still need assistance from the public to report
if the suspects are violating city arrest," he said. -- JP