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