KPK grills former Health Minister over graft case

The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Thu, 11/19/2009 4:37 PM

The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) questioned former Health Minister Siti Fadillah Supari as a witness in relation to an alleged graft case in the procurement of bird flu vaccines in 2006.

After undergoing around three hours of questioning, Siti did not want to answer journalists' questions.

“I have to study the case first,” she said as quoted by tempointeraktif.com.

The anti-graft body has declared as a suspect the general secretary of the Coordinating Ministry for People's Welfare Soetedjo Joewono for his alleged roles in having marked up the vaccine project, and hence caused the state to lose Rp 32 billion (US$ 3. 2 million).