Novianti Setuningsih & Rizky Amelia – With the fate of high-profile graft suspect Muhammad Nazaruddin now decided, after the Jakarta Anti-Corruption Court on Friday handed down a prison sentence of four years and 10 months, the next question is what will become of the people he tried to drag down with him during his trial.
Nazaruddin named much of the senior leadership of the ruling Democratic Party, of which he was treasurer, as being complicit in various corruption schemes – and just before his sentencing, he dropped his latest bomb.
The deputy chairman of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), Busyro Muqoddas, and his cohorts, Nazaruddin said, are all corrupt. "Cut my ears off if they are not corruptors," Nazaruddin said, without providing details.
Meanwhile, KPK spokesman Johan Budi said the commission could use the verdict to help it unravel the rest of the bribery case surrounding the athletes' village construction project for the 2011 Southeast Asian Games.
"As the leadership of the KPK has said, Nazaruddin's verdict is an opening for the KPK to follow up on the bribery case at the Sports and Youth Affairs Ministry's secretariat," he said.
The verdict, he said, will also help "facilitate the investigation of Mrs. A.S. as a suspect," Johan added, referring to Democratic lawmaker Angelina Sondakh, now a suspect in the same case.
KPK prosecutor Anang Supriyatna said reports that Nazruddin, Youth and Sports Affairs Minister Andi Mallarangeng, ministry secretary Wafid Muharam, lawmaker Mahyuddin and Angelina once met to discuss the Hambalang Stadium project in Bogor were grounds enough for further investigation.
The wife of Democratic Party chairman Anas Urbaningrum, Atiyah Laila, has also been mentioned by the KPK as one of the parties allegedly involved in the graft-ridden Hambalang project.
Angelina has denied Nazaruddin's claims that she received up to Rp 10 billion ($1 million) for her role in the project.
The party chairman himself is among the Democratic Party leaders the former treasurer has accused of corruption. Anas, Nazaruddin told prosecutors, was the owner of Permai Group, the conglomerate behind a string of companies used to win government contracts and launder bribes.
Construction company Adhi Karya won the contract for the athletes' village after paying Rp 100 billion to help the Democrats hold a national congress, Nazaruddin said. He said Permai Group chipped in Rp 30 billion and $5 million to help Anas win the party chairmanship in 2010.
He also accused Anas of involvement in graft linked to the Hambalang project. Nazaruddin also said he had sent money to Ahmad Mubarok to finance a foundation the senior Democrat had established.
The Democratic Party's deputy secretary, Saan Mustofa, was also accused of taking money in the Hambalang project, while the party's deputy chairman, I Gede Pasek, was named as the distributor of bribes for the party's leadership.
Another party deputy chairman, Didi Irawadi Syamsudin, and the head of the party in the House, Jafar Hafsah, have also been accused of taking money from the Hambalang project. The deputy head of the House Budget Committee, Democrat Mirwan Amir, was also said to have contributed Rp 20 billion from project "fees" he had levied to Anas's election campaign team.
Nazaruddin has also accused former Constitutional Court chief judge Jimly Asshiddiqie and the court's secretary general, Janedjri M. Gaffar, of graft linked to the construction of the court's building.
Nazaruddin's wife, Neneng Sri Wahyuni, is also wanted on graft charges, but remains on the run.
[Additional reporting by Ezra Sihite.]