TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Attorney General Prasetyo has rebuffed claims that his office has requested the expedited investigation into Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) investigator Novel Baswedan.

Prasetyo said the Attorney General’s Office (AGO) would continue looking into the case proportionally and professionally despite the case expiring next year.

“What happened yesterday was probably resulted from the initiatives of police investigators, who sought to solve the case immediately,” he told Tempo on Sunday, May 3, 2015.

“I did not make any instruction to public prosecutors to speed up the investigation into Novel’s case,” he said.

He added the AGO had yet to begin its investigation into the case as it was still being handled by the police, and that the case dossiers had not been handed over to the AGO.

“So this is their [the police] business, we don’t have the authority yet,” he said, adding that he was not concerned by the case’s deadline. “If it expires, then so be it, what’s certain is that we have done our part. It doesn’t matter if the case expires, that will be the investigators’ business,” he said.

Earlier, National Police chief Gen. Badrodin Haiti said police investigators arrested Novel at the behest of the AGO, which was handling Novel’s case, given the investigation would expire in 2016.

REZA ADITYA