Head Of North Jakarta Immigration Examined About Letter Requesting To Delete Red Notice Djoko Tjandra

JAKARTA - The head of the North Jakarta Immigration Office, Sandi Andaryadi, is questioned by the Police regarding the case of removing red notice by Djoko Tjandra.

Director of General Crimes at Bareskrim Polri Brigadier General Ferdy Sambo said Sandi was asked to testify as a witness regarding the making of Djoko Tjandra's passport when he was still a fugitive.

"The examination of witness Sandi Andaryadi. The examination began at 11.00 WIB," Ferdy told reporters, Wednesday, August 19.

Investigators also questioned the red notice application letter sent by the National Police's International Relations Division (Divhubinter) to the Director General of Immigration at the Ministry of Law and Human Rights.

"List of questions, the process of making the JST suspect's passport (Djoko Tjandra). The DivHubinter letter to Immigration resulted in the revocation of the red notice and the banning of the JST suspect," he said.

Separately, the National Police Public Relations Division Karo Penmas, Brig. Gen. Awi Setiyono, said that during the interrogation, the investigators retailed Sandi Andaryadi with 15 questions.

"There were about 15 questions that were asked by investigators to him. Earlier he was examined from 11.00 WIB to 15.30 WIB this afternoon," he said.

In the case of Djoko Tjandra's red notice, the police have named 4 people as suspects. They are Inspector General Napoleon Bonaparte and Brigadier General Prasetyo Utomo. They are suspected of being the recipients of bribes for red notice removal.

Both of them are pursued by Article 5 Paragraph 2, Article 11 and Article 12 letters a and b of Law Number 20 of 2020 concerning Corruption Crime (Tipikor) in conjunction with Article 55 of the Criminal Code.

Meanwhile two other people are bribes. They are Djoko Tjandra and Tomi Sumardi. Both of them were charged under Article 5 Paragraph 1, Article 13 of Law 20/2020 concerning Corruption Crime (Tipikor) in conjunction with Article 55 of the Criminal Code.

In the bribery case, investigators confiscated US $ 20 thousand as evidence.