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he Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) brought former Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) chief Hadi Poernomo for a second questioning session on Tuesday in a high profile tax case involving PT Bank Central Asia (BCA), the nation'€™s biggest private lender.

The antigraft body stepped up its investigation into Hadi, who was named a suspect in April 2014, in the case after the former Finance Ministry'€™s director general of taxation between 2002 and 2004 gave up his pretrial motion in April 14.

After around eight hours of questioning, Hadi emerged from KPK headquarters without giving any information to waiting reporters.

'€œPlease ask KPK investigators if you have any questions regarding the case,'€ Hadi said.

Last week, after his first questioning session as a suspect in the case, Hadi revealed that other parties could have been involved in the BCA case but refused to give any names.

'€œThe investigators asked me 10 questions. [As for other parties involved], please ask KPK investigators, don'€™t ask me because I don'€™t want talk about the content of the investigation,'€ Hadi said last week.

The KPK named Hadi a suspect for his decision during his tenure as director general for taxation from 2002 to 2004 to unilaterally approve a request by BCA for income-tax leniency, a decision that the KPK said had caused
Rp 375 billion in state losses '€” the amount in taxes that BCA should have paid to the state.

In addition to Hadi, he is among the favored bureaucrats of former president Megawati Soekarnoputri, the ruling Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) chairwoman.