Brigadier Yosua's Family Disappointed Supreme Court Decision Cancels Ferdy Sambo's Death Penalty

JAKARTA - Chairman of the Family Lawyers Team Brigadier (Annumerta) Nofriansyah Yosua Hutabarat, Kamarudin Simanjuntak expressed his disappointment with the decision of the Supreme Court (MA) against the verdicts of Ferdy Sambo, Putri Chandrawati and Ricky Rizal.

"Unfair, disappointing families and not being a representation of society," said Kamarudin Simanjuntak, family lawyer Brigadier Yosua as reported by ANTARA, Tuesday, August 8.

According to Kamaruddin, the three defendants had a role in the premeditated murder of Brigadier Anumrita Yosua.

Moreover, Putri Chandrawati, who was judged by her as the main actor, initially admitted to being harassed by Brigadier Yosua, then complained to her husband, and mobilized her two aides to be involved in the shooting of Brigadier Yosua.

"The same response applies, face-to-face is inseparable from what the princess is doing. This daughter is the culprit of this problem," he asserted.

Kamaruddin also said that his party had suspected that the Supreme Court's decision would be like it is today because of the political lobbying. Given the decision of the district and high court to strengthen each other.

"Actually, we already know that a decision will be like this through what is called political lobbying of underground troops and so on. But we are also very disappointed because it turns out that judges at the MA level can still be lobbied in pick marks," said Kamaruddin.

"So what PC (Putri Chandrawati) did was much more evil than the others, but she was greatly relieved that her sentence would expire to 50 percent," Kamaruddin added.

As previously reported, the Supreme Court (MA) sentenced the accused to premeditated murder Brigadier Nofriansyah Yosua Hutabarat, Ferdy Sambo to life imprisonment from the previous death penalty.

In addition, the Supreme Court also eased the decision of the three accused premeditated murder of Brigadier Nofriansyah Yosua Hutabarat, namely Putri Candrawathi, Ricky Rizal Wibowo, and Strong Ma'ruf.

The Supreme Court has decided that Putri Candrawathi, who is Ferdy Sambo's wife, will be sentenced to ten years in prison from the previous 20 years.

Meanwhile, Ricky Rizal's sentence also became lighter, namely eight years in prison than the previous 13 years.

Furthermore, the sentence of Sambo and Putri's household assistants, Strong Ma'ruf, was also reduced from the previous 15-year prison sentence to ten years.