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letter sent by acting Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) chairman Taufiequrachman Ruki is not enough to convince police investigators to drop power abuse charges against former chairman Abraham Samad, according to the National Police'€™s detective division chief, Comr. Gen. Budi Waseso.

'€œThe letter said that his actions were merely an ethics breach, but that does not dismiss his crimes. If it was an ethics breach, it should be dealt with internally, while we investigate the case,'€ Budi told reporters at the National Police headquarters in South Jakarta.

On Wednesday, Abraham was questioned as a suspect for allegedly abusing his power as leader of the antigraft body in a bid to become a vice presidential candidate last year. The former commissioner said he was mostly asked about a meeting he had had with then-presidential candidate Joko '€œJokowi'€ Widodo in Yogyakarta last year.

After the questioning, Abraham revealed that Ruki had written to National Police chief Gen. Badrodin Haiti, advising him that the former KPK chief was guilty only of an ethics breach and asking him to drop the case.

The police moved against Abraham following a claim made by Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) secretary-general Hasto Kristiyanto earlier this year that Abraham had met with PDI-P officials on a number of occasions to lobby for the position of Jokowi'€™s running mate in the 2014 presidential election.

Hasto'€™s announcement followed the KPK'€™s decision to name then police chief candidate Comr. Gen. Budi Gunawan a graft suspect.