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ormer member of the House of Representatives (DPR) budgetary committee and graft convict Muhammad Nazaruddin has made fresh accusations naming more lawmakers as well as high-ranking officials in rigged government projects.

On Tuesday, Nazaruddin'€™s lawyer Elsa Syarief said she had submitted to the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) evidence on the involvement of House members who allegedly siphoned off money from 30 government projects.

'€œWe have all the evidence, but the cases are still being investigated [by the KPK],'€ she told reporters at the KPK'€™s headquarters in Kuningan, South Jakarta.

Elsa declined to specifically identify the individuals implicated in the graft, providing only their initials.

'€œThey are SN and AU. In the House, MM, Olly DK and MA. The project organizers, AN, AS, including Nazaruddin. Then GA and EG. That'€™s all for now,'€ she said.

Elsa hinted that some of the names were involved in the Rp 5.8 trillion (US$523 million) electronic identity card (e-KTP) project at the Home Ministry.

Nazaruddin has previously claimed that Golkar Party lawmaker and treasurer Setya Novanto, former Democratic Party chairman Anas Urbaningrum and former members at the House'€™s Commission II overseeing internal state affairs were involved in the project, with a budget markup of 45 percent.

In the document submitted by Elsa to the KPK, which was seen by The Jakarta Post, SN and AU refer to Setya and Anas, while Olly DK is budget committee deputy chairman and Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle ( PDI-P) treasurer Olly Dondokambey.

Meanwhile, MM and MA are believed to be former budgetary committee leaders Melchias Markus Mekeng from Golkar and Mirwan Amir from the Democrats. The document stated that Melchias and Mirwan allegedly received $500,000 in kickbacks while Olly received $1 million.

The document also mentioned three other former members of the House'€™s Commission II who were alleged to have involvement in the project; Chairuman Harahap from Golkar, as well as newly-elected Central Java Governor Ganjar Pranowo and Arief Wibowo, both from the PDI-P. Each of them allegedly received $500,000 in kickbacks from the project.

Ganjar, in an interview with the Post, denied the allegations.

The document also names Home Minister Gamawan Fauzi as well as other officials at the ministry, including secretary-general Dian Anggraeni and e-KTP tender committee head Drajat Wisnu.

Elsa said she did not want to give details of the people in the document as she was concerned about the safety of Nazaruddin.

She said that Nazaruddin had received threats from people who wanted him to stop his whistle- blower activities.

'€œMolotov cocktails have been thrown at his house,'€ she said.

Nazaruddin has been acting as a whistle-blower in various high-profile graft cases, including the Hambalang sports complex project which has implicated Anas and former youth and sports minister Andi Mallarangeng.

Meanwhile, the House Ethics Council said on Tuesday that it would summon 15 lawmakers who were alleged to have been involved in graft cases. Chairman of the council Trimedya Panjaitan said that the House needed to seek clarification from the lawmakers.

'€œIt'€™s really important for us to hear their explanations before we decide what to do with them. But, we must first study the report of the investigation the BPK [Supreme Audit Agency] has submitted to the House'€™s leaders,'€ Trimedya said, referring to the BPK report which revealed the role of 15 lawmakers from the House Commission X overseeing youth and sports in breaching the proper mechanisms for budget deliberation in the House. Nine of the lawmakers agreed to increase the 2010 budget allocation to the Youth and Sports Ministry by Rp 600 billion even though it had not been discussed by the rest of the commission'€™s members.