KPKPN questions 30 state officials

JAKARTA: At least 30 of the 600 state officials whose wealth declarations have been verified by the Public Servants' Wealth Audit Commission (KPKPN) are currently undergoing special investigations on suspicion that they have amassed their wealth through corruption, collusion and nepotism.

Commission chairman Yusuf Syakir said on Thursday that the investigation results would be handed over to the police, the Attorney General's Office and the military police if his team was able to prove that the officials' assets, or at least half of them, had been obtained illegally.

He refused to disclose the names of the officials or the institutions with which they are associated, saying: "I will reveal their names soon after the investigation has been completed."

Earlier, the Commission had said it had found irregularities in the wealth declarations of seven first echelon officials, four court officials and four officials of state-owned companies. -- JP