REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA – Muhammad Nazaruddin, the former treasurer of Democrat Party, is guilty inbribery case during the construction of Southeast Asian (SEA) Games` athlete village last 2011. He was sentenced for four years and 10 months by Jakarta anti-corruption court on Friday. 

"The judges sentence four years and ten month of jail to the convict and obliged him to pay 200 million IDR fine or an extra 10 months of jail sentence," judge Dharmawati Ningsih said on Friday.

Earlier, the prosecutor demanded a seven years of jail sentence and 300 million IDR in fines (or six months in prison) for Nazaruddin. The public prosecutor from the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) accused the close friend of Democrat Party Chief Anas Urbaningrum of receiving 4.6 billion IDR (around 5 million USD) from marketing manager of PT Duta Graha Indah M El Idris in the first session of his trial.

“The suspect juridically is proven guilty of corruption according to the Law Article 11 on Eradication of Corruption,” the member of panel of judges, Marsudin Nainggolan, said. 

The bribe, according to the prosecutor, was given to him as a success fee for helping PT DGI win a contract for the construction of a 2011 SEA Games athletes village in Jakabaring, Palembang, South Sumatra, with 191 billion IDR in state budget funds.

When he was asked by the judges about the sentence, Nazaruddin said, “I think about it first.” After the trial, he was seen talking to his two of his lawyers, Elza Syarif and Hotman Paris Hutapea. One of his lawyers, Ruffinus Hutahuruk, said Nazaruddin no longer used their service to face his other cases in KPK.

Because of his action the prosecutor accused Nazaruddin, also a former member of DPR Commission III of violating Article 12 b of Corruption Law, Article 5 paragraph 2 or Article 5 paragraph 1b of the corruption law. 

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