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Jakarta, (ANTARA News) - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) is set to investigate the possibility of graft in the ways the Supreme Court is collecting case-handling fees from justice-seeking members of the public, a spokesman said.

"We have already issued an investigation order and a team of investigators has begun to move on the basis of State Audit Board (BPK) findings" on Supreme Court case-handling fees," KPK Chairman Antasari Azhar said here Thursday.

The BPK had audited the Supreme Court`s income from the fees and the audit`s findings would be used by the KPK investigators` team to approach the highest judicial body in the country, he said.

The KPK team would soon ask the Supreme Court to clarify the BPK audit results, Azhar said.

But the BPK audit findings would not be the only matter to be discussed with the Supreme Court. The KPK would also examine the possible ways in which the Court was managing the case-handling fees as they had often been labeled by the public as "not transparent", he added.

Antasari admitted the BPK findings did not necessarily show the Court had engaged in unlawful practices but "they will serve only as reference material."

Among the specific matters the KPK investigators` team would question the Supreme Court about were the basis for collecting the case-handling fees, the fee rates, specifications of the fees. how income from the fees are spent.

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