The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has summoned four former Bank Indonesia (BI) deputy governors, including Aulia Pohan, for their first interviews as suspects in a Rp 100 billion (US$9.3 million) corruption case, to take place Monday.
KPK chairman Antasari Azhar said Sunday the summonses had been sent last Wednesday. "We believe that they'll come. They have been cooperative so far," he said, as quoted by Tempointeraktif.com.
Antasari said investigators would focus on gathering strong evidence of their involvement in the crime to bring them to trial. The KPK has yet to detain the suspects, but it has prohibited them from traveling abroad.
The announcement by the anti-graft body that Aulia, the father-in-law of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's son, had been named a suspect in the case made headlines last week. The KPK has denied there was any political pressure.
KPK has alleged Aulia, Maman Soemantri, Aslim Tadjuddin and Bun Bunan Hutapea were involved in a decision by the BI board of governors in June 2003 to illegally disburse a total of Rp 100 billion from the central bank's Indonesian Banking Development Foundation (YPPI).
The money was used to cover legal expenses for five former BI deputy governors, who were implicated in the embezzlement of the BI liquidity support (BLBI) fund, and to bribe lawmakers of the then House of Representatives' Commission IX.
Last week, the Corruption Court found former BI governor Burhanuddin Abdullah guilty of embezzlement and sentenced him to five years in prison. (dre)
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