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Nazaruddin Scandal Implicates Indonesia Politicians in New Corruption Scandal
Rizky Amelia | February 09, 2012

Court proceedings in the trial of Muhammad Nazaruddin were delayed four hours on Wednesday because the graft defendant, who has complained of health problems, said he had to get a massage. JG Photo/Afriadi Hikmal Court proceedings in the trial of Muhammad Nazaruddin were delayed four hours on Wednesday because the graft defendant, who has complained of health problems, said he had to get a massage. JG Photo/Afriadi Hikmal
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Prosecutors from the Corruption Eradication Commission have said that graft suspect Muhammad Nazaruddin prepared two boxes filled with cash for legislators in a bid to secure an additional construction project.

Anang Supriyatna, a prosecutor from the antigraft agency known as the KPK, said the alleged payoff was for a separate project unrelated to the construction of the athletes’ village for last year’s Southeast Asian Games, for which Nazaruddin is on trial.

“We suspect [that the cash] was to secure [another] project,” Anang said following Nazaruddin’s trial proceedings on Wednesday.

The separate allegations were revealed earlier that day when the prosecution brought in Saiful Bahri, a former official at Nazaruddin’s Permai Group, to testify against the lawmaker and the former treasurer for the ruling Democratic Party.

Saiful said that in April 2010, he was asked by Oktarina Furi — an assistant to Nazaruddin’s wife Neneng Sri Wahyuni, who has also been implicated in the case — to bring the cash to the House of Representatives (DPR).

“I gave the packages to Pak Aan, [Nazaruddin’s] driver, in the basement of the DPR building,” Saiful told the court.

Saiful said that before the delivery, he had asked Oktarina what the boxes contained and she had replied that it was money. Oktarina, he added, never told him how much money was in the two boxes.

Saiful said that the boxes were the size of shoe boxes and wrapped in gift wrap. Two weeks later, he said, Oktarina asked him to make another delivery.

“This time, she told me that the boxes contained $200,000,” he said, adding that he also gave the money to Aan in the DPR’s basement.

“I had to make sure that the packages were received by Aan.”

Previously, former Permai Group deputy finance director Yulianis told the court that Mindo Rosalina Manulang, a co-defendant in the case and another Permai Group official, had once requested money for two members of the House Budget Committee, Democrat Angelina Sondakh and Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) politician I Wayan Koster.

Yulianis said Angelina and Koster had received Rp 2 billion and Rp 3 billion, respectively ($226,000 and $339,000).

Lutfi Ardiansyah, a Permai Group driver, said that Rosalina once instructed him to deliver money to Wayan’s room at the DPR building while money for Angelina was received by her staff member Jefri.

Angelina and Koster have both been named as suspects in the case.

The case came to public attention after the KPK arrested Rosalina for providing Rp 3 billion in bribes to Sports and Youth Affairs Ministry secretary Wafid Muharram in April last year.

The same court earlier sentenced Rosalina and Wafid to 30 months and 3 years in prison, respectively.