"Mohammad Nazaruddin was not caught by Indonesian police but by Colombian police who suspected him of holding a fake passport," Pramono said at the Parliament building here on Tuesday.
The Colombian police did not arrest him because they knew of his involvement in a bribery case linked to the Sea Games athletes village project, he said.
The arrest occurred when the local police conducting a raid, suspected Nazaruddin of using a forged passport.
According to Pramono, the Colombian police had caught the Indonesian fugitive by accident.
As reported earlier, Nazaruddin using a passport with a false name, was nabbed in Cartagena, Colombia on Sunday (August 7).
Nazaruddin is wanted as a suspect in a bribery case linked to a Sea Games athletes village project in Palembang, South Sumatra.
He, however, had left for Singapore a day before the KPK asked the ministry of justice and human rights to issue a travel ban for him on May 24, 2011.
He had been to several countries before he was caught in Cartagena, the head of the National Police`s public relations division, Inspector General Anton Bachrul Alam, said on Monday (Aug 8).
"Nazaruddin departed from Singapore to Vietnam and then he went to Cambodia and by a chartered plane to Bogota through Madrid, Spain, and then the Republic of Dominica," he said.
In an effort to arrest him the Indonesian police had issued a red notice for the international police to help.
(Uu.F001/HAJM)
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