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Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has questioned Fahmi Mochtar, former president of the state electricity company PT PLN, in investigating the possibility of graft in one of the company projects involving Eddie Widiono predecessor.

KPK previously named Eddie as a suspect in this case, which revolves around a computerization project of PLN supply customer information system (CIS-Risi) for Jakarta and Tangerang power distribution unit.

Fahmi came to the KPK office on Monday morning. He briefly said: "I was questioned as a witness for Eddie Widiono".

KPK spokesperson Johan Budi said the state losses due to corruption allegations were estimated to reach USD 45 billion (approximately U.S. $ 493,200).

CIS-risk project initiated by the ITB Polytechnic in the 1990s, but then subcontracted to PT Netway Utama.

Suspicions about collusion emerged when it became known that the head of Polytechnic ITB at the time, Gani Abdul Gani, was also president of Netway.

The total project is valued at around Rp 137 billion.

Commission is also investigating the possibility of corruption in the procurement of IT branch of the East Java-based customer management system project. Hariadi Sadono, former director of the branch has been given the name of the defendant amounted to Rp 80 billion, which causes losses to the state.