Andi Muhammad Ghalib (3 June 1946 – 9 May 2016) was an Indonesian

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officer, politician, and

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. He served as the

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from 1998 to 1999 within the

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. Ghalib resigned as Attorney General in June 1999 amid a corruption scandal. Ghalib, an ethnic

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, was born in

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in the present-day province of

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on 3 June 1946. He was a native of

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. On 15 June 1998, Indonesia's new President

fired Indonesia's Suharto-era Attorney General, Sujono Atmonegoro, and appointed Maj. Gen. Andi Muhammad Ghalib as the country's new Attorney General. Ghalib has been serving as the director of the

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' law office at the time of his appointment. Ghalib was Attorney General of Indonesia within President Habibie's

from June 1998 until June 1999. However, on 3 June 1999, which coincided with Ghalib's 53rd birthday,

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, the then-head of

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(ICW), released an investigation which alleged that Ghalib and his wife had deposited an estimated 9 billion

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($1.2 million), which was given by Indonesian

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s and businessmen, in nine different bank accounts between September 1998 and May 1999. Ghalib announced that he would temporarily step down as Attorney General on 14 June 1999, with a letter of resignation dating from 9 June. From 2008 until 2013, Ghalib served as the

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of Indonesia to

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. Ghalib, a member of the

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(PPP), was a member of the

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, also known as the House of Representatives, representing the South Sulawesi II electoral district, at the time of his death in 2016. He died on 9 May 2016 at Medistra Hospital in

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, at the age of 69.

References

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