Rizky Amelia – During his time on the run, the lead-up to his trial, and in court, Muhammad Nazaruddin has levelled a litany of allegations about others involved in the corruption scandal for which he was charged and eventually convicted.
The one point about which he was consistent throughout the whole episode was that other high-level Democratic Party officials were just as deeply mired in rigging the bid to build the athletes' village for last year's Southeast Asian Games.
Most prominent among those fingered were party chairman Anas Urbaningrum and legislator Angelina Sondakh, who has since been named a suspect though not detained by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK).
Anas, Nazaruddin insisted, was the true owner of the Permai Group, the conglomerate behind a string of shell companies that Nazaruddin was accused of using to win government contracts and launder bribes.
He said it was the conglomerate that put up Rp 30 billion ($3.27 million) plus $5 million to help Anas win the party chairmanship during a national caucus in Bandung in 2010, with the money carted from Jakarta.
The former Democrat treasurer also accuses Anas of rigging the bid to build the Rp 1 trillion Hambalang sports center in Bogor in exchange for a 10 percent cut from the winning contractor, which also went toward his campaign in Bandung.
As for Angelina, Nazaruddin claims she was instrumental in rigging the athletes' village contract through her position on the House of Representatives' sports oversight commission. He said she received a cut of Rp 120 million that she then gave to I Gede Pasek, the head of the Democrats' central leadership board, to launder.
Pasek, he alleged, was also the person at the 2010 caucus in charge of handing out bribes to delegates from the Democrats' Bali chapters to vote for Anas.
Jafar Hafsah, the Democrats' former chairman at the House, was not spared by Nazaruddin, who accused him of involvement in the Hambalang project, while Mirwan Amir, the top Democrat at the House Budget Committee, was alleged to have funneled Rp 20 billion to Anas's campaign.
"As a deputy chairman of the Budget Committee, Mirwan got his money from projects. He collected around Rp 100 billion," Nazaruddin said.
One of the few notable Democrats of rank not named by Nazaruddin is Edhie Baskoro Yudhoyono, the son of the party's chief patron, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. "I don't want to name people who aren't involved, but I'll tell it like it is," Nazaruddin said.