KPK questions student in beef graft scandal

Jakarta Post | National | Thu, 07 March 2013, 5: 45 AM

The corruption eradication Commission (KPK) on Wednesday questioned Maharani Suciyono, 20, as a witness in connection with the graft scandal at the Department of agriculture that the country's largest Islamic party members involved.

Maharani was caught naked in a hotel room with Ahmad Fathanah, the main suspect in the case and a close aide of prosperous Justice Party (PKS) President Luthfi Hasan Ishaaq, during a RAID by the KPK investigators in January.

The anti graft Commission cleared her of any involvement in the case and released from her a few hours after her arrest. Fathanah allegedly paid her for sex using part of the Rp 1 billion (US $ 10,000) bribe money he received from a beef import company, a claim that she has dismissed as incorrect.

Maharani was tight lipped when asked about the questioning on the KPK by journalists. "Sorry, sorry, sorry," she said before taking a taxi took her away by KPK headquarters in Kuningan South Jakarta.

In addition to the anti graft body Luthfi and Fathanah, also named two meat importing PT Indoguna Utama company executives, Juard Effendi and Arya Abdi Effendi, suspects in the case.