Jakarta (ANTARA News) - After questioning Anggodo Widjojo, a key figure in a suspected plot to frame two Eradication Commission (KPK) leaders, for three days, police were on Friday still unable to find a legal reason to detain him.

"We are still collecting information from him until now. We cannot just name him a suspect without strong evidence to justify it," deputy head of the national police`s public relations division, Brigadier General Sulistyo Ishak, said.

Anggodo is the person who held wiretapped conversations with a number of law enforcement officials, believed aimed at making antigraft officials Bibit Samat Ryanto and Chandra M Hamzah suspects. The recording of the conversations was replayed at a Constitutional Court session on Wednesday causing an uproar in the community.

Sulistyo said besides studying Anggodo`s confessions the police would also ensure that the recording made by KPK was authentic.

"We will check its authenticity scientifically to support our investigation. There will be experts who would check it," he said.

Police investigators continued examining Anggodo although they had done it for three days so far.

"Today, our client will be interrogated again. What the questions will be I do not know," Anggodo`s lawyer Bonarang Situmeang said.

"In the previous questionings it was about the content of the recording but for today I do not know," he added.

He said his client would not complain although he had been examined under no clear status. "We will follow it and he is ready to be examined until the problem is understood by the people," he said.

Anggodo is also the brother of Anggoro Widjojo now wanted by the KPK in connection with a corruption case at the ministry of forestry. He has fled to Singapore.

Police have caught Anggodo because of his central role in the alleged making-up of a case that led to the naming of Bibit Samat Ryanto and Chandra M Hamzah suspects in a case of power abuse and extortion.

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has set up a special team to verify legal facts and processes of the Bibit-Hamzah case. His name was also mentioned in the recording.(*)

Editor: B Kunto Wibisono

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