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Nazaruddin Reports Angelina for Lying
Bayu Marhaenjati, Ezra Sihite & Zaky Pawas | February 22, 2012

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The defense counsel for graft suspect Muhammad Nazaruddin on Tuesday reported Democratic Party lawmaker and graft suspect Angelina Sondakh to the police for making false statements in court.

“She explained in court that she did not recognized the BlackBerry dialogue transcript that was shown by the prosecutors, saying that she was not yet a BlackBerry user in 2009,” said Abdul Farid Gonggo, a member of Nazaruddin’s defense team.

“The evidence, however, showed that in 2009 she was already using a BlackBerry Bold 9000,” he said.

According to an investigation by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), Angelina communicated through BlackBerry Messenger with another suspect, Mindo Rosalina Manulang to request bribe money for rigging a tender.

The tender was linked to the construction of an athletes’ village for the Southeast Asian Games last year.

Nazaruddin, the Democratic Party’s former treasurer, is the main suspect in this graft case .

He is currently being held at Cipinang Penitentiary in East Jakarta during his trial at the Anti-Corruption Court.

Rosalina, a director of Permai Group, one of Nazaruddin’s companies, told the court that Angelina accepted a Rp 2 billion ($222,000) “fee” linked to the project. She also said I Wayan Koster, a member of the House of Representatives Budget Commission from the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), received Rp 3 billion.

Abdul said Angelina could be charged with giving a false statement under oath, a violation of the Criminal Code that carries up to seven years in jail. He said the police report on Angelina, which was accompanied by five photographs and testimony from several witnesses, had been accepted by the police.

Jakarta Police spokesman Sr. Comr. Rikwanto confirmed that police received the report.

He added that a suspect can file a police report “but the legal process cannot precede the ongoing case.”

Meanwhile, Max Sopacua, the deputy chairman of the Democratic Party, said the party was in no hurry to replace Angelina, who is expected to be suspended as the party’s deputy secretary general sometime this week. The suspension will follow the KPK’s decision on Feb. 3 to name Angelina as a graft suspect in the athletes’ village case.

“I think there’s no problem regarding whether to replace her,” Max said.

“If the position stays open, that won’t be a problem either,” he added, because the party has three other deputy secretary generals.