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he Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) on Friday questioned Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) lawmaker Tamsil Linrung on his alleged role in the graft case concerning the disbursement of Regional Infrastructure Adjustment Funds (DPID).

Tamsil, along with other leaders of the House of Representatives’s budget committee, has been accused of playing a key role in the graft scandal.

Tamsil denied his role in the case, saying that he never met with Golkar politician Fahd El Fouz, who has been convicted in the case. Fahd was sentenced to two-and-a-half-years in prison for bribing Wa Ode Nurhayati with Rp 6.25 billion (US$644,000) to secure DPID disbursement for three regencies in Aceh: Pidie Jaya, Bener Meriah and Aceh Besar.

Both Fahd and Wa ode, who got six years in prison for her role in the case, have implicated Tamsil and the other committee leaders, including Melchias Markus Mekeng of the Golkar Party, Olly Dondokambey of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), and Mirwan Amir of the Democratic Party. “Fahd said in his trial that he did not know me and never met me until the trial,” he told reporters at KPK headquarters in Kuningan, South Jakarta. He insisted that the budget committee did not receive any kickbacks for pushing for the allocation of the DPID funds.