For Hotman Paris, The Case Of Inspector General Teddy Minahasa Is Not Enough Evidence To Be Brought To Court

The attorney for the defendant in the drug trafficking case, Inspector General Teddy Minahasa, Hotman Paris Hutapea, assessed that the case against his client was not yet time for trial.

"One of the weaknesses of this case, this indictment is 'premature', it is not yet time for trial," Hotman Paris told reporters at the West Jakarta District Court (PN), Jakarta, Thursday, February 2, quoted by Antara.

According to Hotman, the case is not yet time for trial because the parties who attended the destruction of about 40 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine, allegedly exchanged for 5 kilograms of tawas on Teddy's orders, were not summoned by the investigative team to be examined as witnesses.

"The person who was present, the official witness during the destruction of the methamphetamine, not one was summoned as a witness. Even though it was a key witness, there was a head of state prosecutor's office, the head of the court, officials from the Bukittinggi Regional Government, West Sumatra, and even 75 media. One was not summoned. He said, there was only evidence of WhatsApp chat (challenging) that it was exchanged," explained Hotman.

Previously, Polda Metro Jaya investigators stated that Teddy Minahasa was suspected of having ordered his subordinates to set aside evidence of methamphetamine from the results of the disclosure of the case to be circulated.

The Bukittinggi Police initially wanted to destroy 40 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine, but Teddy, who at that time served as the West Sumatra Police Chief, allegedly ordered his men to exchange 5 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine with tawas.

However, the embezzlement of drug evidence was finally exposed by a series of disclosures of narcotics cases by the Central Jakarta Metro Police and Polda Metro Jaya.

A total of 1.7 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine has been successfully circulated, while the remaining 3.3 kilograms have been confiscated by officers.

For this act, Teddy is suspected of violating Article 114 paragraph (3) sub-Article 112 Paragraph 2 in conjunction with Article 132 paragraph (1) in conjunction with Article 55 of Law Number 35 Year 2009, with a maximum penalty of death and a minimum of 20 years in prison.