Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Tens of police officers came to the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) building here on Friday night shortly after Police Insp. Gen. Djoko Susilo had undergone questioning over his alleged involvement in a driving simulator corruption case.

Nearly 15 police officers dressed in batik clothes entered the KPK building while tens of others stood by outside the building.

They came to the building to pick up a police investigator handling the driving simulator corruption case, a source said.

The police officers stayed in the sterilized KPK room while waiting for KPK commissioners who were on their way home to Jakarta.

Only one commissioner, Zulkarnain, was available at the office. The other three commissioners were not in the city. Abraham Samad was in Makassar, South Sulawesi, to attend the burial of his brother-in-law, while Bambang Widjojanto was in Samarinda, East Kalimantan, and Adnan Pandu Praja was in Malaysia.

Deputy Minister of Law and Human Rights Denny Indrayana who had come to the KPK building earlier said he would defend the anti-graft body.

Djoko Susilo, the former chief of the National Traffic Police Corps, was named as a suspect in a corruption case involving the procurement of driving simulators.

KPK also named several other police officers and company directors as suspects in the case.

The case became controversial after the police claimed to be the `rightful institution` to tackle the case. (S012)

Editor: Kunto Wibisono
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