Four lawmakers to face graft probe

Four lawmakers to face graft probe

JAKARTA: Four House of Representatives members are expected to face questioning soon over the haj fund scandal allegedly implicating former religious affairs minister Said Aqil Hussein Al-Munawwar.

"They will be summoned as witnesses, not suspects," Vice President Jusuf Kalla announced after a meeting with the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) on Friday.

The four lawmakers are Taufiqurrahman Saleh of the National Awakening Party (PKB), Lukman Hakim Saefuddin of the United Development Party (PPP), Siti Supatmi from the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) and Anwar Arifin of the Golkar Party.

Police were investigating the haj fund scandal involving some Rp 684 billion at the Ministry of Religious Affairs.

However, Kalla could not say whether President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono had approved requests for investigations into the four legislators.

On Thursday, presidential spokesman Andi Mallarangeng said Susilo had endorsed the planned investigation of a lawmaker and nine top local government officials for alleged corruption. --Antara