JAKARTA (Yosefardi) – Attorney General Basrief Arief has just filed a report to the National Police on Thursday (June 19) over a defamation against him related to the circulation of a fake transcript claimed based on his wiretap conversation with PDI-P chairwoman Megawati Soekarnoputri regarding the investigation into a graft case of the procurement of Transjakarta buses.
In a press briefing at the Attorney General Office (AGO), Basrief said he has also submitted a report from a portal online and the transcript contained fake wiretap conversation to the Police as evidences.
Basrief stated that the transcript is a defamation.
As reported earlier, the leaked fake KPK’s wiretap transcript was circulated by Faizal Assegaf, Chairman of a group of activists called themselves as Progress 98.
According to Faizal, he listened the wiretapped conversation from someone recognized himself as an envoy of KPK’s Deputy Chief Bambang Widjojanto. Faizal said that later that envoy gave him the wiretap transcript. (haryantos@yosefardi.biz)