Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Rizky Amelia & Ezra Sihite – A Prosperous Justice Party lawmaker said on Monday that the corruption case against former Democratic Party treasurer Muhammad Nazaruddin was unlikely ever to be resolved because it threatened so many powerful officials.

"I think Nazaruddin's case touches on many important figures, so I am pessimistic that this case will ever be settled," PKS lawmaker Abubakar Al Habsyi said.

He pointed to the latest rumor making the rounds, which was reported by an online news portal, about the alleged ties between Nazaruddin and National Police Chief Gen. Timur Pradopo.

According to the report, Anugerah Nusantara, a company owned by Nazaruddin, paid hundreds of millions of rupiah to several police officials between 2006 and 2008.

The company was said to have been awarded several contracts linked to the police, including constructing a police academy under the jurisdiction of the Banten Police, which at the time was headed by Timur.

National Police spokesman Sr. Comr. Boy Rafli Amar said the police could not comment without more detailed information.

Boy said the rumors would not influence the police's handling of Nazaruddin's case or persuade it to drop its investigation. He said an investigation could be dropped only after an analysis of the facts, if it was determined that there was not enough evidence of a crime.

Abubakar said that if there was evidence showing the involvement of the police chief in any crimes, then the information should be handed over to the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) so it could open an independent and transparent investigation into the allegations. "We do not want the Nazaruddin case to be settled under the table," he said.

Nazaruddin's lawyer, Afrian Bondjol, said he had no information of Timur's involvement in any case related to his client.

Meanwhile, Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) lawmaker I Wayan Koster, who is on the House of Representatives Budget Committee, said he did not think he would be named a suspect in a corruption case related to the construction of an athletes' village for the Southeast Asian Games in Palembang.

The case has implicated Nazaruddin, one of his company executives and the director of another company that won the construction contract. Nazaruddin is also a former member of the House Budget Committee

KPK chairman Busyro Muqoddas has said that another politician will be named a suspect in the case, though he has declined to identify anyone.

"From the results of my questioning, I don't think that it will lead to [my being named a suspect]," Koster said. He said that if he was named a suspect in the SEA Games case, it would be because a "certain party" pushed for it, though he declined to give names.

Nazaruddin has accused Koster of receiving a bribe in connection with the construction of the athletes' village.