KPK will go after others in Anggoro case

JAKARTA. Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) chairman Abraham Samad said that the antigraft body would not stop its efforts to unravel more graft cases that could involve former forestry minister MS Kaban, following the arrest of graft fugitive Anggoro Widjojo.

Abraham said that KPK investigators would question Kaban if deemed necessary. “This will be a long investigation. We need to dig deeper,” Abraham said on Sunday.

Earlier, The KPK questioned Kaban as witness in the case. Anggoro was arrested by the Shenzhen Police in China on Wednesday. He fled to Singapore just before the KPK imposed a travel ban on him in August 2008.

Anggoro’s suspect activities date back to early 2008 when the KPK probed former legislator Yusuf Emir Faisal for reportedly accepting bribes from Anggoro to secure a project bid for the latter’s company, PT Masaro Radiokom, which was granted the Integrated Radio Communication System (SKRT) tender between 2006 and 2007, despite not going through the bidding process.