Heru Andriyanto – The widow of slain businessman Nasrudin Zulkarnaen said on Monday that the accused mastermind of the murder, antigraft agency chairman Antasari Azhar, has promised involvement in a project that could earn her husband Rp 1.5 billion.

Sri Martuti, 44, said Nasrudin told her about the project during their last conversation on March 9.

"Nasrudin said he was promised a project in Kolaka regency by Antasari Azhar and could earn Rp 1.5 billion. He told me if the project was successful, he would give me Rp 500 million," said Sri, who married Nasrudin in 1990.

"I thought it was quite unusual because he rarely spoke about any project, especially with such a huge amount of money as the fee," Sri said as she testified in the hearing at the Tangerang District Court.

"But he convinced me by quoting Antasari as having said that the project was halal [acceptable according to Islamic law]."

Sri said she didn't understand the project because Nasrudin refused to elaborate and his visit at her house was to discuss one of their two children, who was about to enter college and needed money.

"But I knew who Antasari was when the conversation took place. He was the chairman of the Corruption Eradication Commission," she said.

Sri and Nasrudin had lived separately since he married again in 1999 with another woman named Irawati Arienda. But Sri said she was still Nasrudin's wife.

Nasrudin's driver also testified at Monday's hearing.

Suparmin, who drove the car at the time of the attack, said he heard two gunshots. When he looked at the back seat, his boss was lying with blood all over his face.

"He didn't make any sound but I knew he was still alive. His hand made some movement," Suparmin said of Nasrudin.

He said his car ran slowly at around 40 km per hour and that shortly before the shootings, a Toyota Avanza van overtook his car from the left and ran steadily at a distance of around three meters in front.

"After the gunshots, I saw two men on a motorcycle run away from the scene. I stopped the car and cried for help. The crowd told me to take Nasrudin to hospital, so I returned to the car and rushed to Mayapada Hospital."

Suparmin said the two men rode a Yamaha Scorpio bike, confirming it as the same type and color of a motorcycle presented in courtroom as evidence.

Juan Felix Tampubolon, chief of the defense team for defendant Daniel Daen, showed the witness several photographs of motorcycle and asked Suparmin which one was a Yamaha Scorpio.

The lawyer asked if Suparmin knew one of the two men on the motorcycle was carrying a pistol.

"I didn't see the gun," the witness said.