Pinangki Transaction With The Child Of The Former Director General Of Immigration Worth IDR 20 Million

JAKARTA - The Attorney General's Office (AGO) has revealed that the online sale and purchase transaction of Attorney Pinangki Sirna Malasari with the son of the former Director General of Immigration at the Ministry of Law and Human Rights, Ronny F Sompie, Grace Veronica Sompie, is worth IDR 20 million.

"So there is indeed an online purchase that happens to be that the child (Grace Veronica Sompie) is selling goods, now Pinangki bought her transfer. The value is also small, only Rp. 20 million," said the Investigation Director of the Junior Attorney General for Special Crimes at the Attorney General's Office, Febrie Ardiansyah. Febrie told reporters, Thursday, September 10.

According to Febrie, the items that Pinangki bought from Grace Veronica's online buying and selling were souvenirs. However, Febrie made sure that the two of them did not know each other. The transaction was also in the context of buying and selling.

"It looks like a souvenir. The two parties do not know each other, we check that Pinangki and this child (Grace) don't know, this child also doesn't know Pinangki, so we are fair to see the legal facts like that," said Febrie.

According to Febrie, what his party was doing was tracing Pinangki's money which was allegedly obtained from the proceeds of criminal acts. Because, his party charged Pinangki with the money laundering article.

"Yes, it is traced one by one so that we can confirm earlier whether this is the one who received involvement or not because the TPPU could have done it if he laundered the money, right? We will confirm this," he said.

Meanwhile, Pinangki was named a suspect on suspicion of receiving gratuities worth US $ 500 thousand or the equivalent of Rp. 7 billion from Djoko Tjandra for processing the fatwa. He was charged with Article 5 letter b of the Corruption Crime Law.

Pinangki was also charged with the article money laundering crime (TPPU). Pinangki is suspected of disguising and spending money suspected of being the proceeds of corruption. Among other things, to buy a BMW SUV X5 which has been confiscated by the AGO.