Former Bank Indonesia (BI) senior deputy governor Miranda Swaray Goeltom answered a summons by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Wednesday, the first time since the antigraft body began investigating an alleged bribery case surrounding her election as a BI official in 2004.
Miranda arrived at KPK headquarters at 1:42 p.m., smiling but refusing to answer questions from waiting journalists.
The case emerged when a former legislator from the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) Agus Tjondro Prayitno, testified before the Corruption Court and the KPK that he had received Rp 500 million (US$50,000) in traveler's checks from his PDI-P colleague Emir Moeis, shortly after the House of Representatives approved Miranda's nomination for the position in June 2004.
The KPK declared Hamka Yandhu of the Golkar Party, Endin J. Soefihara from the United Development Party (PPP), Dudhie Makmun Murod from the PDI-P and Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) member Udju Juhaeri suspects in the case.
Miranda was elected when 41 of 54 members of the House of Representatives' Commission IX on banking and financial institutions voted for her, including almost all of PDI-P's 17 lawmakers in the commission, 15 Golkar legislators and several commission members from other parties.
The Financial Transaction Report Analysis Center (PPATK) later identified 400 traveler's checks allegedly linked to legislators mentioned by Agus.
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