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Indonesian anti-graft agency to probe corruption allegation in football

Xinhua, June 8, 2015 Adjust font size:

A senior official at Indonesia's anti-graft agency KPK said on Monday that the agency would investigate corruption allegation in Indonesia's Football Association (PSSI) worth billions rupiah (around millions U.S. Dollars).

The would-be conducted probe against the PSSI was to follow suit the complaint about the corruption allegation lodged in by a national football supporter organization of anti-corruption football supporter community (KORUPSSI).

"Every complaint would be followed up. We will scrutinize things reported in the complaint," a member of KPK acting chairman board Johan Budi told a press conference in his office after receiving the complaint.

He added that the anti-corruption agency will see whether or not a crime of corruption has persisted in the report. If there is, he said, KPK will determine whether the case can be investigated by the KPK or not.

The KORUPSSI chairman Parto Pangaribuan said that the corruption allegations in the PSSI persisted in its several projects worth 24.5 billion rupiah (about 1.8 million U.S. dollars), irregularities in managing funds to develop national football provided by the government worth 20 billion rupiah (about 1.5 million U.S. dollars) and the fund to finance PSSI's recent congress to elect its chairmanship worth 3.5 billion rupiah (about 263,000 U.S. dollars).

Parto also said that his organizations also have listed names of PSSI senior officials allegedly possibly implicated in the corruption allegation.

"We have the evidence and financial reports audited by the nation's supreme auditor agency (BPK). The irregularities persisted in PSSI contracts with their partners, TV broadcasting rights, sponsorship, football match ticket sales and other irregularities in the conduction of several national football events," Parto said after lodged in the report in KPK premises earlier on the day.

Previously Indonesian youth and sports minister has frozen the rights of PSSI to hold national football competition as PSSI refused government's intervention in the competition.

The football world governing body FIFA has slapped a sanction to PSSI recently due to situation faced by government's intervention attempt in PSSI. Endi