Abraham Says Romantic Picture of Him not Real

Jakarta (Antara) - Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) chief Abraham Samad stated on Wednesday that pictures showing him and a beauty queen in romantic poses are not real. "This is a gossip deliberately spread to assassinate my character and criminalize me," he said in a text message on Wednesday. One of the three pictures distributed through e-mails shows Abraham Samad kissing the girl. The same e-mail has mentioned the name of the girl as Elvira Devinamira who is a 2014 Indonesian beauty queen born in Surabaya, East Java, on June 28, 1993, and a law student of state Airlangga University. Elvira and Abraham met at an Election Integrity Program event on March 8, 2014. According to Abraham, the distribution of the pictures is connected to his recent announcement naming national police chief candidate Commissioner General Budi Gunawan a suspect in a corruption case. "This is very likely related to it," he said. (*)