Farouk Arnaz & Ezra Sihite – The Corruption Eradication Commission is sending its head of investigations, Yurod Saleh, back to the National Police amid reports of ties to graft suspect Muhammad Nazaruddin.

A National Police spokesman, Brig. Gen. Muhammad Taufik, said on Monday that the antigraft body, known as the KPK, had notified the police that Yurod's services were no longer needed, but did not provide further details.

"If you ask the reason [for the transfer], we don't know," he said. "[Police officers] are only assigned temporarily to the KPK. If the KPK feels he is no longer needed, we won't complain."

The KPK does not have its own investigators, relying on officers from the National Police. National Police chief of detectives Comr. Gen. Sutarman confirmed Yurod was moving. KPK deputy chairman Bambang Widjojanto declined to say why Yurod was being moved, or when it would happen.

Citing an anonymous source described as "a senior KPK official," news site tempo.co said the KPK had held an ethics tribunal for Yurod after it learned he had close ties to Nazaruddin.

When the KPK was questioning Nazaruddin's brother, Muhammad Nasir, he and Yurod met and kissed each other on the cheek. "The incident was recorded by CCTV," the news site quoted the source as saying.

Before Nazaruddin was named a suspect, he had several telephone conversations with Yurod, and the KPK also had records indicating that money was funneled to Yurod from one of Nazaruddin's companies, the source continued. Taufik called the report "baseless rumor."