It said Chongwadae is patronizing U and it has direct impact on the investigation by the prosecution.

In fact, the prosecution excepted U's house from the search and confiscation operation from the beginning and was reluctant to investigate the lawbreaking on the part of his wife's side, it charged.

Worse still, the confiscation of a hand phone of a reporter who was supposed to act a witness was an abuse of the right to investigation, an encroachment upon the freedom of speech, it deplored