The pressure continues to mount on the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK).

In a first hearing with the anti-graft body leaders since the launch of a controversial inquiry into the commission, the House of Representatives on Monday called into question the fate of graft convicts’ assets that the commission has seized since its establishment in 2003.

The KPK has refused to recognize the legitimacy of the House’s inquiry and therefore has never attended any of its hearings. However, the KPK’s leadership attended the meeting, which was organized by the House’s legal affairs commission.

The lawmakers, who claim to have found a number of discrepancies regarding the KPK’s performance, used the session to quiz KPK leaders over their findings, including allegations the KPK has not registered many of the assets it has seized with the storage center for confiscated goods, known as Rupbasan.

The lawmakers claim to have received reports of missing seized evidence, including some of the cars belonging to graft convict Tubagus Chaeri “Wawan” Wardana, a politically wired businessman and the younger brother of former Banten governor and graft convict Ratu Atut Chosiyah.

“[The KPK] seized a Harley Davidson motorcycle, a Nissan car, a Toyota car and a Lexus car from Wawan. Where are those vehicles now?” asked Junimart Girsang from the ruling Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), a major supporter of the inquiry into the KPK.

Junimart went on to detail a list of allegedly missing items he compiled based on reports submitted by members of the public from all across the archipelago in a move to put the KPK in the spotlight.

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