REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) presented seven witnesses at the pretrial hearing filed by Commissioner General Budi Gunawan against the antigraft body at the South Jakarta District Court here on Friday.
The witnesses consist of three fact witnesses and four expert witnesses, Head of the KPK's Legal Bureau Chatarina M.Girsang said before the pretrial hearing began.
She, however, refused to mention the names of the witnesses but three of them were criminal law experts and the other one was administrative law expert.
The KPK's team of lawyers would reveal written legal evidence to support their argument when naming Budi Gunawan a grft suspect.
Budi Gunawan's team of lawyers had presented their witnesses, expert witnesses, and evidences to support their legal arguments during the hearing on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The KPK-Police conflict surfaced after the anti-graft body named Budi Gunawan, the sole candidate for police chief, suspect in a corruption case on January 13, 2015.
The KPK investigators accused Budi Gunawan of receiving bribes through suspicious transactions when he headed the Police Headquarters' Career Planning Bureau during 2003-2006 and held other posts in police.
Responding to the ongoing conflict, President Joko Widodo recently stated he would solve all the issues caused by the cancellation of Commissioner General Budi Gunawan's inauguration as police chief.
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