TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Director for General Crimes, Police Criminal Investigation Unit, Brig. Gen. Agus Andrianto has dismissed reports that the coordinator of the Commission on Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (KontraS) Haris Azhar had been named as a suspect.

“Not yet, it’s too soon to name a suspect,” Brig. Gen. Agus was quoted as saying by Antara news agency.

However, Agus has confirmed that Haris had been reported to police by a person on Tuesday, August 2, 2016.

Police had been investigating the report. “It’s still being investigated,” he said.

Meanwhile, KontraS coordinator Haris Azhar said he was not aware of being named as a suspect. “I have no idea about being named as a suspect,” he said.

However, he said that he had been reported by the National Armed Forces (TNI) and the National Narcotics Agency (BNN) to Police Criminal Investigation Unit in connection with alleged violation against Law on Information and Electronic Transactions (UU ITE).

“I’ve been reported by the TNI and the BNN to police,” he said.

Earlier, in Hari Azhar’s article titled “Cerita Busuk dari seorang Bandit: Kesaksian bertemu Freddy Budiman di Lapas Nusa Kambangan (2014)" (A Disgusting Story from a Bandit: A Testimony based on a meeting with Freddy Budiman at Nusa Kambangan Penitentiary (2014)), Haris wrote that Freddy claimed to have given billions of rupiah to Indonesian law enforcers to smoothen the running of his illegal business in Indonesia.

“Based upon my calculation, during years of drug trafficking, I had given Rp450 billion to the BNN. I had given Rp90 billion to certain official(s) in Police Headquarters. I even used a car of a TNI two-star [general],” Freddy said as quoted from KontraS Facebook page.

Haris Azhar had admitted that he did write the short article. In a press conference at KontraS premise, he also admitted to have sent his article to the presidential spokesman Johan Budi.

“I have decided to publish the article to convey a message that if the government executes this man (Freddy Budiman), it has eliminated a man with significant information to crack down on crimes committed by state institutions and hundreds of billions in bribes,” Haris said.

ANTARA