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Anas denies claims he held meeting with Andi Narogong
Former Democratic Party chairman Anas Urbaningrum said on Thursday that he did not hold a meeting with Andi Agustinus, alias Andi Narogong, during a questioning in which he was asked about the businessman, who the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) had named a suspect in the e-ID procurement case.
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Suspected: Former Democratic Party chairman Anas Urbaningrum attends a trial at the Jakarta Corruption Court on Aug. 11, 2014. (JP/Dhoni Setiawan)
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ormer Democratic Party chairman Anas Urbaningrum said on Thursday that he did not hold meetings with Andi Agustinus, alias Andi Narogong, during a questioning in which he was asked about the businessman, who the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) had named a suspect in the e-ID procurement case.
“I have a friend whose name is Andi but it’s not Andi Narogong,” Anas told journalists at the Jakarta Corruption Court before giving a testimony in the trial of two Home Ministry officials, Irman and Sugiharto, who were accused of having been involved in the alleged corruption.
In the KPK indictment read out earlier last month against the two officials, Andi was alleged to have met with House of Representatives speaker Setya Novanto, who is also the Golkar Party politician, Anas and former Democratic Party treasurer Muhammad Nazaruddin several times in 2010.
The meeting was allegedly held to discuss how the e-ID project was executed and how parts of the Rp 5.9 trillion (US$442 million) project budget would be distributed among several lawmakers at the House.
“It’s quite easy to reject [accusations of my involvement]. Just check the CCTVs [in the location where the meeting was allegedly held],” Anas said.
Anas and the three other people allegedly agreed in the meeting that only 51 percent of the Rp 5.9 trillion would be used to fund the e-ID project, while the remaining 49 percent, or Rp 2.5 trillion, would be distributed among several politicians and government officials, including then Home Affairs Minister Gamawan Fauzi. (ebf)
