Indonesia detains 3 police generals suspected of wiretapping president

JAKARTA, Indonesia -- JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian police said Tuesday they had detained three senior police generals suspected of illegally wiretapping President Prabowo Subianto and dozens of other prominent figures.Asep Safrudin, head of the National Police’s Criminal Investigation Agency, said the suspects were being investigated for illegally intercepting communications, accessing electronic systems without authorization and deleting electronic data.Police identified the suspects as Presidential Chief of Staff Gen. Listyo Sigit Prabowo, National Police Legal Division head Insp. Gen. Ahrie Sonta Nasution and Insp. Gen. Eko Hadi Santoso, a senior instructor at the National Police Education and Training Institute. All three were detained at the National Police headquarters detention center, Safrudin said."The suspects are alleged to have carried out nonprocedural or illegal tapping against the telephone numbers of the president of the Republic of Indonesia, state officials, political figures, media figures, community leaders, NGO activists and businesspeople,” Safrudin told a news conference at national police headquarters in Jakarta late Tuesday.Neither Prabowo nor the t...