Attorney General Laments Setbacks in Handling Graft Cases
9 December 2014 18:54 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Newly-installed Attorney General Prasetyo said his institution had been facing setbacks in handling some particular graft cases. Praseyo said the corruption practices often involved knowledgeable, powerful officials.
Prasetyo added state officials often committed collective corruption and protected one another, thus hampering the investigation into the cases.
He also explained that corruption cases that require investigations were more complicated than those aimed at being resolved through red-handed operations.
"When we have a red-handed operation, we will have both the suspects and the evidence," he said on Tuesday, December 9, 2014.
Prasetyo said there were also cases when the corruptors were fighting back during investigations by denying investigators access to evidence.
The Attorney General's Office (AGO) have investigated a total of 1,538 corruption cases in 2014, with 590 suspects being named convicts. Prasetyo claimed the AGO has managed to salvage state money worth Rp274.85 billion.
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