TEMPO.CO, Surabaya - Dahlan Iskan, suspect of a graft case on the procurement of electric cars, has officially lodged a pretrial lawsuit against his suspect naming by the Attorney General's Office (AGO).
"We have filed a pretrial lawsuit with case register number 17 at the [South] Jakarta District Court on Friday last week," Dahlan's lawyer Agus Dwi Warsono said at the East Java Prosecutor's Office in Surabaya on Monday, February 13, 2017.
Agus revealed that Dahlan filed the pretrial lawsuit in relation to an excerpt of an appeal decision letter for suspect Dasep Ahmadi, owner of electric car manufacturer PT Sarimas Ahmadi Pratama.
"Based on the Criminal Procedures Code [KUHAP], the excerpt was given to the defendant or his lawyer. If the context was the execution of a ruling, then the legal basis for the prosecutor’s office is the copy of court ruling with permanent legal force," Agus said, concluding that the suspect naming of his client was premature.
Earlier, Attorney General M. Prasetyo said that Dahlan's suspect naming was based on a Supreme Court’s ruling stating that Dasep was proven guilty of corruption practices. Dahlan, who served as State-Owned Enterprises Minister at that time appointed Dasep's company to manufacture electric cars.
The AGO on January 26, 2017, named Dahlan as a suspect of corruption case surrounding the procurement of 16 electric microbuses and an executive bus. The suspect naming is set forth in a letter of investigation order issued by the AGO's director of special crime.
NUR HADI
