KPK Under Intense Counter-Attack over Miranda Case

Several of the 26 suspects charged with receiving bribe money in connection with the appointment of a Central Bank executive in 2004 are launching a counter attack against the KPK’s decision to name them as a suspect.
Golkar’s Hengky Baramuli filed a judicial review against an article on the 2002 Law on the KPK which stipulates that the KPK cannot stop an investigation once it had charge someone.
Another suspect, sitting PDI-P lawmaker Panda Nababan had taken his case to the National Commission for Human Rights saying that the KPK had violated his civil rights. Panda had also reported several Anti-Corruption Court judges who implicated him in the case to the Supreme Court and the Judicial Commission.
Six former PDI-P legislators on Monday also filed a civil lawsuit against the KPK for implicating them in the bribery scandal surrounding the 2004 appointment of Miranda. The men are seeking Rp 25 billion in damages from the body.
The plaintiffs say they were instructed by PDI-P leaders to take the money and donate it to the party to support the nomination of chairwoman Megawati Sukarnoputri in the presidential race. Thus, it had nothing to do with Miranda’s central bank bid, the plaintiff’s lawyer Petrus Selestinus said.
Nunun, the wife of former National Police Deputy Chief Adang Daradjatun, is wanted for questioning over the distribution of Rp 24 billion in traveler’s checks to members of the House of Representatives in 2004.
The money is thought to have been in exchange for their votes for Miranda Goeltom as senior deputy governor of the central bank.
Ina Rachman said that her client had been suffering from a mysterious illness which caused her memory problems and had to be treated at a hospital in Singapore.


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