AN independent investigating team member presented a letter to Muhtadi Asnun. Reading it for a moment, he suddenly turned pale. Signed by team chairman Inspector-General Matius Salempang, the note was an order for the arrest of the former Chairman of the Tangerang District Court.

On that Friday evening two weeks ago, the investigators took Asnun to the National Police HQ. The presiding judge who acquitted Gayus Tambunan of tax embezzlement had a