THE WhatsApp messages came in one after the other on Muhammad Yusuf Hasibuan's cell phone. The aide to Rokan Hilir Regent Suyatno began to worry as the messages suddenly turned from friendly to threatening.

More shockingly, the sender claimed to be Muhammad Nazaruddin, the former general treasurer of the Democrat Party currently imprisoned for corruption.

Yusuf was also contacted on the phone by a man that claimed to be Nazaruddin's liaison. Yus