The fasting month has not made Akbar change his story. The Golkar chairman is still insisting that he did not receive a single cent of the increasingly controversial Rp40 billion from the State Logistics Agency (Bulog). Not only that, last Wednesday, he told the press that he had not even touched the Bulog check. "My fingerprints are not on the check. Of course I'm telling the truth. This is the fasting month," he said calmly.

But former Bulog financ