"When a case we are handling has reached an advanced investigation stage, a witness can be summoned with forceful means if he or she fails to meet our summons a third time without a legally acceptable explanation," KPK spokesman Johan Budi said here Monday.
What the KPK was possibly to do against Nazaruddin if a third summons was ignored, would be fully in accordance with the existing law, he said.
"So we will , of course, use our authority based on existing law. The procedure we are to follow in that case would also be conform to the relevant legal rules," he added.
The KPK had so far summoned Nazaruddin twice already to be questioned as a witness in two corruption or bribery cases.
Last Friday (June 10), the KPK had expected Nazaruddin to come to its office to testify in an alleged corruption case at the National Education Ministry but he did not. On Friday (June 13), the former Democrat Party official was to have presented himself at he KPK office to be heard as a witness in the bribery case involving Wafid Muharam, secretary to the Youth and Sports Minister but he also failed to come.
Naxaruddin had thus twice ignored a KPK summons and there had been no reaction whatsoever from him to both summonses while he was in Singapore where he had gone one day before a travel ban was imposed on him last May 14.
The summonses were served not only on Nazaruddin but also on his wife, Neneng, who was wanted in connection with suspected corruption in the procurement of solar power generation equipment for the Manpower and Transmigration Ministry. (*)
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