The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has established four special teams to probe graft cases centered on Bank Indonesia liquidity support (BLBI) funds, which it will take over from the Attorney General's Office.
The AGO and the KPK met at the latter's headquarters in South Jakarta on Wednesday to discuss the BLBI cases, before the anti-graft body took over their investigation.
The KPK has been under mounting pressure from the public to take over investigations into the BLBI cases after the AGO was slammed by several groups for failing to resolve them.
Senior AGO prosecutor Urip Tri Gunawan was recently sentenced to 20 years in prison for receiving bribes from a businesswoman linked to tycoon Sjamsul Nursalim, one of those implicated in a BLBI case.
"We split up the discussion of the BLBI cases into four groups. The first concerns cases that have been handed over to the court, especially the execution of asset recovery to the state," KPK chairman Antasari Azhar told a press conference after Wednesday's meeting.
The second group, he went on, focused on BLBI cases whose investigations had been stopped by the AGO due to the issuance of a "release-and-discharge" letter from the government, including those involving the Indonesian National Commercial Bank (BDNI) and the Asian Central Bank (BCA).
Antasari said the KPK would also investigate the issuance process for the release-and-discharge letters by the administration of former president Megawati Soekarnoputri.
"Because it was a government policy, we will focus more on the officials who committed wrongdoings in the process (of the letter's issuance)," he said.
He said the KPK was also evaluating which cases needed to be investigated further.
"We will be objective in the handling of each case; we will declare it clear if the issuance was done according to regulations," he said.
"The third group of cases comprises those whose investigations were dropped because they were not proven to have caused state losses," Antasari said.
He said the KPK would also calculate the value of assets recovered by BLBI debtors to check whether they matched with the value of their debts.
"The fourth group comprises cases taken over by the Finance Ministry," he said, but did not elaborate.
Antasari said Wednesday's meeting was the first in a series of meetings between the KPK and the AGO to determine which BLBI cases would be taken over by the anticorruption body.
He said in addition to all the documents from the AGO, the KPK would also consider facts revealed in court, to decide which BLBI cases to take over.
Assistant attorney for special crimes Marwan Effendi said the AGO was open to working with the KPK in resolving the BLBI cases.
"We will hand over to the KPK all documents related to the BLBI cases," he said.
He added the AGO would be ready to summon the attorneys who handled the cases.
The BLBI scandal revolves around Rp 144.5 trillion (US$14.5 billion) in BLBI money, disbursed to 48 banks during the 1997-1998 Asian financial crisis.
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