Farouk Arnaz, Jakarta – The National Police have cleared the chief of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) from an allegation of illegal gun possession, saying Abraham Samad was found to have the proper paperwork for the deadly weapon.

"[The gun] is legal and proper, the police have no problem with that," Comr. Gen. Badrodin Haiti, the deputy chief of National Police, said on Sunday. "The gun comes with a proper permit and it was not state property – it was Suhardi's private gun," Badrodin added.

Abraham was reported to the police on Friday for having received a 32-caliber Sig Sauer gun from Comr. Gen. Suhardi Alius, a former National Police head of public relations, in 2013.

Markoni Koto, head of an organization calling itself Defenders of the Nation's Unity (PIB), who first raised the concern, said the gun was a form of expensive gratification. Markoni also alleged that the gun possession was likely illegal because the permit had probably expired.

Badrodin however said Abraham was allowed to own a gun because of the nature of his work, leading an agency that continues to ruffle feathers within the establishment.

Abraham has also been reported to the police for allegedly forging state documents in a string of allegations embroiling KPK leaders.

All four KPK commissioners – chairman Abraham and deputy chairmen Bambang Widjojanto, Adnan Pandu Praja and Zulkarnain – stand to be named criminal suspects by the police in a range of cold cases – some dredged up from a decade ago – that critics say constitute a blatant retaliation by the police against the KPK's naming of Comr. Gen. Budi Gunawan, President Joko Widodo's nominee for police chief, a suspect for bribery and money laundering.

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