Rabby Pramudatama and Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – A key witness in the graft trial of suspended Democratic Party lawmaker Angelina Sondakh revealed on Thursday that more lawmakers allegedly received money as kickbacks that were wired to numerous bank accounts.

In her testimony before the Corruption Court with former lawmaker Angelina Sondakh as defendant on Tuesday, Yulianis mentioned the names I Wayan Koster, a lawmaker from the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), and Azis Syamsuddin and Zulkarnaen Djabar from the Golkar Party as having been involved in "schemes" to benefit the company owned by former Democratic Party treasurer Muhammad Nazarudin.

Yulianis also said that she also wired money in 14 transactions to all those politicians.

"I also disbursed money for Azis Syamsuddin for [helping] a project at the Attorney General's Office, and Zulkarnain Djabar, Said Abdullah and Abdul Kadir Karding for a project at the Religious Affairs Ministry," she said, referring to three other members of House Commission VII overseeing religious affairs.

These individuals, according to Yulianis, often attended internal meetings [with the company officials] related to projects the company was eyeing.

Yulianis could not recall the name of the lawmaker from the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) whom she said was involved in a project with the Health Ministry.

Yulianis is a key witness in Angelina's graft trial. Yulianis is a former deputy financial director at the holding company, PT Permai Group, which is owned by former Democratic Party treasurer M. Nazaruddin.

Nazaruddin is believed to have run dozens of companies under the group proxy to bid for government projects that were then subcontracted to larger companies in exchange for money.

Angelina herself stands trial for allegedly having received kickbacks from Nazaruddin's company for the construction of the SEA Games athletes' village in South Sumatra, and a project with the Education and Culture Ministry.

Angelina is standing trial at the Jakarta Corruption Court for allegedly accepting a total of Rp 34.9 billion (US$3.6 million) in kickbacks from Permai Group.

According to her dossier, Angelina, who was a member of House's budget committee, had received kickbacks for securing government-funded projects, the SEA Games athletes' village construction project at the Youth and Sports Ministry and laboratory equipment procurement projects for several universities at the Education and Culture Ministry.

Contacted separately, lawmaker Olly Dondokambey denied that he had a role in the schemes. "It's all lies. I have never heard anything about the company or Yulianis," Olly told reporters on Thursday.

Olly claimed that the House's budget committee discussed only general policies and laws, and never went into details regarding procurement projects, as was accused by Yulianis. "How could I start any discussion on the projects when we never talked about any of them in the committee?" he said.