REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- Indonesia's anti-graft agency KPK has named Deputy House Speaker Taufik Kurniawan as a corruption suspect. Taufik Kurniawan who is a politician of the National Mandate Party (PAN) is believed to have received graft or pledge suspected to be given in exchange for a service he gave through his position.

"Or he has done something or nothing in his position against his duty in connection with Special Fund Allocation budget in the revised national budget of 2016," KPK commissioner Basaria Panjaitan said at a press conference here on Tuesday.

After his inauguration of now non-active Kebumen district head, Muhammad Yahya Fuad, had allegedly approached a number of parties including some parliamentary members and Taufik. Basaria said the fee for passing the Special Allocation Fund (DAK) budget for Kebumen district was five percent of the total.

"MFY (Muhammad Yahya Fuad) is believed to have agreed to give the five percent fee and he then asked for a seven percent fee from suppliers," she said.

Some of the DAK budget was allocated for projects to be carried out by PT Tradha that has been charged with money laundering before. PT Tradha believed to be owned by Muhammad Yahya used a number of company names to carry out road projects.

"Meetings and transfers of money are done in stages at a number of hotels in Semarang and Yogyakarta. There were indications they used rooms with connecting doors (for the operation)," she said.

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Basaria said the third transfer failed after the parties involved were caught red handed by KPK. In the revised budget of 2015 Kebumen received Rp93.37 billion in DAK for road and bridge development.

If proven guilty the lawmaker from the districts of Kebumen, Banjarnegara and Purbalingga in Central Java, could face up minimally four years and maximally 20 years in jail and a fine of minimally Rp200 million and maximally Rp1 billion.

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