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Democrat May Face Probe Over SEA Games Graft
Camelia Pasandaran & Ulma Haryanto | May 08, 2011

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The antigraft commission may summon a treasurer from the ruling Democratic Party over his possible involvement in a corruption case related to the construction of an athletes’ village in Palembang, a commissioner said on Friday.

Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) chief Busyro Muqoddas said the commission might summon Democrat Muhammad Nazaruddin to provide an explanation.

“We are now investigating the case,” Busyro said.

Mindo Rosaline Manullang, a suspected broker in the incident, has said Nazaruddin received Rp 25 billion ($2.9 million) in kickbacks from a construction project for November’s Southeast Asian Games, according to her former lawyer, Kamaruddin Simanjuntak.

Nazaruddin denies the accusation, saying he was a target of a defamation campaign directed against the Democratic Party.

Busyro said the KPK does not take the political party background of witnesses or suspects into consideration before launching an investigation.

The KPK has been accused of selectively investigating cases involving rivals of the Democrats.

KPK deputy chairman Mochamad Jasin said that even if a suspect was close to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who is also a Democrat, “We will keep going on.”

He stressed that if there was sufficient preliminary evidence, the KPK would investigate individuals regardless of their party.

Kamaruddin, who has since been fired by Rosaline as her lawyer, said she once told him that Nazaruddin, as her boss in the company Anak Negeri — of which little is known — had received a commission worth 13 percent of the total value of the athletes’ village project.

Another 2 percent, or roughly Rp 3.82 billion, was allegedly set aside for Sports Ministry Secretary General Wafid Muharram, who has been detained.

Kamaruddin’s replacement, Djufri Taufik, dismissed all connections between Rosaline and Nazaruddin. “She doesn’t work there anymore. She was the marketing director then, but now she has her own business,” he said.