Police Name Samad Suspect to Weaken :NGO

Makassar, S Sulawesi (Antara) - The South Sulawesi Anti Corruption Committee (ACC) considers the decision of the South and West Sulawesi Police to name Chief of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Abraham Samad a suspect is a move to weaken the anti-graft agency. \"We suspect that this is a scenario to weaken the KPK as an anti-graft agency,\" ACC Director Abdul Muthalib said here, Tuesday. He believed that the police is retaliating the KPK\'s move that earlier named national police chief candidate Budi Gunawan a suspect. \"We know that it\'s clearly a scenario to destroy the KPK. We are of the view that all allegations and suspicions against him (Samad) are not true, because it is a criminalization move,\" he added. The ACC has set up a legal team to defend the KPK which has become a target of destruction, he noted. The South and West Sulawesi Police named Samad a suspect for including a woman named Feriyani Lim in his Family Card (KK) and helped her to get an Identity Card (KTP) using his address, for the purpose of making a passport for Lim in 2007. (*)