The Democratic Party's deputy secretary general said that the accusations made by the party's former treasurer Muhammad Nazaruddin were completely untrue.

At the House of Representatives on Tuesday, Ramadhan Pohan was asked to comment on the accusations that leaders of the House of Representatives' budget committee, Mirwan Amir and Angelina Sondakh, were the "players" in graft case connected to a contract for the construction of an athletes' village for the Southeast Asian Games in Palembang in November.

"Please ask Nazaruddin [about the accusations]. We do not respond to any allegations. What Nazaruddin said is not true," Pohan said.

He said that during the meeting of Democratic Party's Executive Board, they had asked Angelina Sondakh for her confirmation. "We had asked for Angelina confirm, [the accusation] is not true," Pohan said

He said the party had agreed not to respond to any accusations and would hand the case to the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) to investigate the people named by Nazaruddin. "We have no intention to respond to the allegations. We have handed the case over to the authorities, to KPK," he said.

"The KPK is the authority and we believe that they are professional. We will not interfere."