JAKARTA - INDONESIA'S chief detective has been replaced after being implicated in an alleged plot to falsely imprison anti-graft investigators, police said on Wednesday.
National Chief Detective Susno Duadji, who resigned from his post earlier this month only to be reinstated, has been shifted from his post as part of a broad administrative reshuffle.
Police spokesman Nanan Soekarna said Mr Duadji would remain a 'high-ranking official in the national police headquarters' despite allegations he had accepted bribes and abused his power to pervert justice.
Mr Duadji was allegedly at the centre of a conspiracy involving senior police, prosecutors and a corrupt businessman to fabricate criminal charges against two members of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK).
He infamously described the conflict between the police and the anti-graft agency as a fight between a crocodile and a gecko, unwittingly reinforcing the dismal reputation of the police in the minds of many Indonesians.
The commissioners were released earlier this month after KPK wiretap recordings of phone conversations exposing the apparent conspiracy were played in the Constitutional Court. -- AFP
