KPK Questions Businessman With Links to Disgraced House Speaker Setya Novanto
Jakarta. Antigraft investigators on Wednesday (22/11) questioned a businessman who has links with the Golkar Party and its disgraced chairman Setya Novanto — who is alleged to have been a conduit for fund transfers in the graft-tainted national electronic identity card, or e-KTP, project.
Made Oka Masagung was questioned as a witness to give testimonies against House of Representatives speaker Setya, a suspect in the case and currently under detention by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK).
Setya was once a director at Gunung Agung, a bookstore chain where Made Oka served as a commissioner and that was founded by his father Masagung.
Made Oka was also involved in Kosgoro, a multipurpose organization affiliated with Golkar, where Setya is still chairman.
Oka remained tight-lipped to reporters when he walked out of KPK headquarters in South Jakarta on Wednesday afternoon.
"Our investigators are digging deeper into the alleged role of SN [Setya Novanto] in the [e-KTP] graft case to make our case against him stronger," KPK spokesman Febri Diansyah told reporters earlier.
Setya was named as a graft suspect in the case for the second time earlier this month. The Rp 5.9 trillion ($436 million) e-KTP project resulted in at least Rp 2.3 trillion in state losses.
Setya is accused of siphoning off Rp 574 billion from the e-KTP project and could face up to 20 years in prison if found guilty.
Two other businessmen, Andi Agustinus and Anang Sudihardjo, have also been named as suspects in the case. Anang is under detention and Andi is currently on trial.
In a hearing last week, Andi revealed up to $6 million initially set aside for the project ended up in Oka's bank accounts.
Also on Wednesday, KPK questioned senior Golkar politician Ade Komarudin as a witness in the graft case.
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