Irawaty Wardany, Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) said Wednesday it would follow up a revelation at the Corruption Court that Megawati Soekarnoputri received a portion of the embezzled funds taken from a state-owned company.

KPK spokesman Johan Budi said that during its investigation into the corruption case at state-owned agriculture company PT Rajawali Nusantara (RNI), KPK did not get information that some of the corrupted money went to Megawati.

"We did not get it during the investigation. It just prevailed at the court," Johan Budi said. "Therefore, we need more evidence supporting the testimony at the court."

Corruption suspect RNI finance director Ranendra Dangin told the Corruption Court on Monday that Megawati received Rp 500 million (US$48,500) from RNI to fund her Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) campaign in Yogyakarta in 2003.

But Ranendra did not specify if the money went to Megawati's personal account or PDI-P coffers.

Ranendra was named a suspect by KPK for misappropriation of a total of Rp 4.5 billion allocated for the purchase of sugar from 2001 until 2004.