15 lawyers ready to tackle Abraham case

The Jakarta Post, Makassar, Tuesday February 17 2015


A team of 15 lawyers has expressed its readiness to represent Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) chairman Abraham Samad, who has been named a suspect in a fake-documentation case.

“We are waiting for an official letter on our appointment as his lawyers in his case and we have been ready to accompany him during the whole legal process,” Adnan Buyung Azis, who is coordinating the team of lawyers, said in Jakarta on Tuesday.

Adnan slammed the police because he said the evidence and witnesses who gave testimony against the suspect were insignificant.

The police named Abraham a suspect on Tuesday on allegations that he helped provide fake identity and family cards to Pontianak resident Ferriyani Lim to enable her to apply for a passport with the immigration office in the city in 2007. Abraham was working as a lawyer at the time.

The Makassar police claimed to have adequate evidence and to have questioned 23 witnesses, including officials from a subdistrict office and the immigration office in the city.

Asked about a possible pretrial petition over his suspect status, Adnan said his team and their client had yet to discuss it. “We are still coordinating with the anti-KPK criminalization team and will discuss whether it will file a pretrial petition with the district court,” he said.

Moreover, Abraham will likely be named a suspect in another case. The Jakarta Police are still investigating allegations that he once made a commitment which was against the 1999 Anticorruption Law, to use his influence to help a politician of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) who was implicated in a graft case. He allegedly made the commitment as part of a bid to become the running mate of the party’s presidential hopeful Joko “Jokowi” Widodo in the 2014 presidential election



(Tjonge, the Police must realy feel held by the buah pelir, they are squirming like a worm on a fishing-hook, so now they are fabricating (fake) evidence to nail bapak Abraham!) siK.



*

Money money money zong ooit vroeger de groep ABBA.



I work all night, I work all day, to pay the bills I have to pay
Ain't it sad
And still there never seems to be a single penny left for me
That's too bad
In my dreams I have a plan
If I got me a wealthy man
I wouldn't have to work at all, I'd fool around and have a ball..

"I'd fool around and have a ball.."

Makes me think of some proverb or other, goes about birds and bushes..,

like.., two balls in a bag better than ten in a bush? Hmmmm.., niet knijpen dan!

siK.



*