JAKARTA (Yosefardi) – The Chief of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Abraham Samad revealed that the KPK has conducting further investigation into the possibility of involvement from other figures in the Bank Central Asia (BCA) tax case implicating Hadi Poernomo, the Chief of the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK).

Abraham delivered the statement through a short message service as quoted by Kompas.com on Tuesday (April 22).

As reported earlier, the KPK has named Hadi Poernomo as suspect in the BCA tax case which caused Rp375 billion of State loses.

Hadi is accused for violating procedure in granting BCA’s tax objection during his tenure as Director General of Taxation in 2002-2004 period.

He is allegedly violating Article 2 Paragraph 1 and or Article 3 of the Anti-Corruption Law juncto Article 55 Paagrapg 1 of the Criminal Code (KUHP).

In addition, Hadi has been banned from overseas travel by the Immigration Office. (haryantos@yosefardi.biz)