KPK Questions House Speaker Setya Novanto as Witness in e-KTP Graft Case
Jakarta. The national antigraft agency on Tuesday (10/01) questioned House of Representatives Speaker Setya Novanto in the e-KTP corruption case.
Setya arrived at the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) office around 9.30 a.m. The questioning finished at 1.30 p.m.
He said the investigators needed a clarification regarding his role in a meeting related to the e-KTP project.
"It was only a clarification regarding a meeting with House Commission II chairman," Setya told the press.
The e-KTP case emerged after the House of Representatives Commission II, which oversees home affairs and elections, approved the Home Affairs Ministry's budget proposal for procurement of the electronic ID card, or e-KTP, program which cost the state Rp 6.7 trillion ($500 million).
Setya's name had been mentioned by graft convict and former treasurer of the Democrat Party Nazaruddin, who said the e-KTP project had been controlled by Setya and former Democrat Party chairman Anas Urbaningrum.
The KPK has named two suspects in the case that had resulted in Rp 2.3 trillion in state losses.
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