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ogor Regent Rachmat Yasin failed to answer a Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) summons on Thursday to undergo questioning in connection with a cemetery graft case in the regency.

Rachmat’s spokesman, David Rizar Nugroho, said the regent had to attend a national education day event in Cibinong, Bogor, so he was not able to make it to his questioning session.

“Therefore, he sent a letter to the KPK today by attaching the invitation letter from the event committee,” David said in a press statement. “Rachmat is waiting for the questioning to be rescheduled.” The case started with the arrest of Bogor regional council speaker Iyus Djuher.

Iyus was alleged to have accepted a bribe from PT Garindo Perkasa to obtain operational land permission from the Bogor regency administration. The company was reportedly intending to open a 100-hectare cemetery park, situated in Tanjung Sari subdistrict, Bogor regency.

KPK commissioner Bambang Widjojanto said that Rachmat was summoned so that the antigraft body could determine whether he was responsible or not in the graft case, seeing that he was the one who sign the permit.