DGI says ‘success fee’ normal

PT Duta Graha Indah (DGI) president director Dudung Purwadi said on Friday at the Jakarta Corruption Court that paying “success fees” to parties that helped his company win a contract “was normal”.

“The fee is like a tradition,” he said while testifying in the trial of Mindo “Rosa” Rosalina Manulang, a graft defendant in the Southeast Asian Games facility scandal.

Dudung said that former Democratic Party treasurer M. Nazaruddin had ordered Rosa, the marketing manager at his company, to set the share of the success fees. “My company didn’t initiate the disbursement of the success fee,” he said.

PT DGI, which won a contract to build the athletes’ village for the games in Palembang, Sumatra, said it had disbursed 20 percent of the Rp 191.7 billion contract to Nazaruddin, Youth and Sports Affairs Ministry secretary Wafid Muharram and South Sumatra provincial officials.

Wafid was reportedly caught red-handed by Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) investigators when accepting his share in April along with Rosa and PT DGI marketing manager Muhammad. El Idris at Wafid’s office.

The KPK named Rosa, Nazaruddin, Wafid and El Idris as graft suspects.

Dudung is testifying as a witness for Rosa and El Idris. (lfr)