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he Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) questioned on Friday Sofran Irchamni, commercial and public sector country manager of information technology company PT Hewlett-Packard Indonesia, in relation to the corruption case surrounding electronic identity card (e-ID) procurement.

KPK spokesperson Johan Budi said Sofran was questioned as a witness in the case.

Johan, however, declined to give more details regarding the questioning, or the exact role played by Hew-lett-Packard Indonesia in the case.

'€œAll I can say is that Sofran was questioned as a witness and not a suspect. I have no authority to explain the case material,'€ Johan said at KPK headquarters in Kuningan, South Jakarta.

KPK investigators also summoned Tunggul Baskoro, former sales director of PT Oracle Indonesia, on Friday.

Both had previously been questioned by the KPK on June 6.

On April 22, KPK investigators raided Sofran'€™s house in Taman Tirta housing complex in Bumi Serpong Damai (BSD), South Tangerang. On the same day, the KPK also raided another Hewlett-Packard Indonesia official, Berman Hutasoit, looking for evidence.

So far, the KPK has only named Sugiharto, director of citizen administration information management at the Home Ministry, as a suspect in connection with the Rp 6 trillion (US$518 million) project case, which took place in 2011 and 2012.

The KPK charged Sugiharto under Article 2 paragraph 1 of the Corruption Law in conjunction with Article 55 paragraph 1 and Article 64 of the Criminal Code for allegedly committing malfeasance, given his authority as the official in charge of the project.

Also on Friday, another KPK spokesman, Priharsa Nugraha, said the KPK had yet to name any other suspects. '€œWe have yet to name other individuals, including anyone from a private company, as suspect in the case. Sugiharto remains our only suspect now,'€ Priharsa said.

The KPK said state losses in the case were estimated to exceed Rp 1 trillion, making it one of the biggest corruption cases ever handled by the antigraft body. It is believed that many other parties were involved.

The e-ID project tender winners were state printing company (PNRI), PT Sucofindo, PT Len Industri, PT Quadra Solution and PT Sandipala Arthaputra.

KPK deputy chairman Bambang Widjojanto earlier said there were technological mismatches between e-ID cards and the scanners procured as a consequence of wrongly procured items. '€œThe e-ID cards produced are based on fingerprint scanning technology, while the procured scanners could only read iris detection systems.'€

However, Bambang refused to disclose other alleged violations, adding that '€œall the details of the violations will be revealed in Sugiharto'€™s indictment later in court.'€

In July 2013, graft convict Muhammad Nazaruddin claimed that then lawmaker and Golkar Party senior politician Setya Novanto, now House of Representatives Speaker, as well as graft convict and Democratic Party politician Anas Urbaningrum, were implicated in the graft case.

However, after Setya was installed as House speaker on Oct. 1, Nazaruddin refused to provide a statement and avoided any statement regarding Setya'€™s involvement in the e-ID project. (idb)