Jakarta – Six politicians from the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) have filed a Rp 25 billion (US$2.8 million) lawsuit against the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) for conducting what they say was an illegal investigation of the Bank Indonesia vote-buying case in which they were implicated.

Poltak Sitorus, Max Moein, Jeffrey Tongas Lumban, Soekanto Pranoto, M. Iqbal and Ni Luh Maryani Tirtasari are all former members of the House of Representatives finance commission. They were accused of receiving traveler's checks to support Miranda Swaray Goeltom's election as BI senior deputy governor in 2004.

"The KPK has never been able to reveal who the owners of the traveler's checks were, to whom they were given or what they were for," the politicians' attorney, Petrus Selestinus, said as reported by vivanews.com.

After filing the suit at Central Jakarta District Court on Monday, Petrus said the other accused were the PDI-P, the PDI-P's faction at the House and Miranda for failing to clarify to the KPK that the distribution of the traveler's checks was not bribery.