The Democratic Party said that they would not participate in preparations to “welcome” their former treasurer, M. Nazarudin, a graft suspect, who was deported from Bogota, Colombia after being arrested by Interpol in Cartagena on Sunday.
According to the head of the party corruption and judicial mafia eradication department, Didi Irawadi Syamsuddin, the party had not prepared anything for Nazaruddin’s return because Nazaruddin has been dismissed from the party.
“There is nothing special. He is no longer a member of the party. Why should we welcome him,” he said on Saturday, as quoted from tempointeraktif.com.
Nazaruddin allegedly fixed the winner of a bid for a project worth Rp. 191.6 billion. The project under the Youth and Sports Affairs Ministry concerns the construction of an athlete’s village for the 2011 SEA Games in Palembang, South Sumatra.
He fled the country in May and has been launching allegations from overseas claiming that other Democratic Party members, including party chairman Anas Urbaningrum and lawmaker Angelina Sondakh, played a role in the corruption scheme.
Nazaruddin was eventually dismissed from the party for making the accusations.
Didi added that his party was ready if other cadre members had to undergo legal processing for their implication in the case.
“It is our commitment to let our members be processed under the law if evidence pointing out their implication were to surface,” he said.
Democratic Party deputy secretary general Ramadhan Pohan said that Nazaruddin did not deserve a welcome because he was not a hero.
“It is obvious if a hero is welcomed. But he [Nazaruddin] isn’t. What would the world say?” he added.
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