TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) is questioning former House of Representatives' (DPR) member Muhammad Nazaruddin about the alleged corruption in the procurement of electronic identity card (e-KTP) package.
"He is being cross examined as a witness for S (Sugiharto)," KPK spokesman Yuyuk Andriati Iskak said in Jakarta, Tuesday, September 27.
The e-KTP graft case is estimated to have incurred a state loss of more than Rp2 trillion. The KPK is developing the case based on Nazaruddin's report, in which he said that the corruption was directly controlled by former chairman of the Democratic Party Anas Urbaningrum, and Golkar's Treasurer Setya Novanto.
Nazaruddin claimed he knows about the collusion because he was the project executor along with Andi Saptinus.
The KPK began investigating the case on April 22, 2014. Sugiharto, the director of population administration information management at the Home Affairs Ministry's Directorate General of Population and Civil Registration, was named a suspect. He was the official commitment maker of the e-KTP project's procurement for the 2011-2012 budget years, which had a value of Rp6 trillion. To date, the case has never been brought to court.
Sugiharto's lawyer Susilo Aribowo said his client has been ill since bearing the status of a corruption suspect for the past two years and seven months.
"Our client even experienced memory loss; the suspect status is burdensome," he said on Wednesday, September 14, 2016.
Because of this health reason, Susilo asked KPK not to throw Sugiharto in jail.
KPK charges Sugiharto with Article 2, paragraph 1 subsidiary of Article 3 of the Corruption Eradication Law in conjunction with Article 55 paragraph 1 in conjunction with Article 64 paragraph 1 of the Criminal Code.
MAYA AYU PUSPITASARI | MUHAMMAD RIZKI
