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ormer Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) chairman Abraham Samad has said he is confident that the South and West Sulawesi Prosecutor'€™s Office'€™s decision to return his case dossier to the local police several times showed that allegations of document forgery were unfounded.

'€œThis is what happens if a case dossier keeps going back and forth. It shows that the case has been forced and that the case is just a means to criminalize [KPK leaders],'€ he told reporters on Thursday after a three-hour interrogation at the National Police headquarters in South Jakarta.

The South and West Sulawesi Prosecutor'€™s Office had returned Abraham'€™s case dossiers to the police twice as they deemed the testimonies incomplete.

Abraham said that he stood by his opinion that whatever evidence the police had compiled against him was made up.

Abraham said that during Thursday'€™s interrogation, the investigators asked him the same questions as during previous sessions. He added that he did not know what statement the police were looking for that he had not previously said.

'€œThey repeated the questions so many times, I don'€™t remember them.'€

Abraham was named a document forgery suspect in February for allegedly helping a resident in Pontianak, West Kalimantan, Feriyani Lim, to obtain a fake ID and family card to apply for a passport at the Makassar Immigration Office.

The accusations sprung up almost immediately after the KPK decided to name then-police chief candidate Comr. Gen. Budi Gunawan a graft suspect.