Police Face 'Resistance' Panji Gumilang In Money Laundering Case

The Criminal Investigation Unit of the National Police stated that it would face pretrial legal steps taken by Panji Gumilang in a case of alleged money laundering or money laundering.

Panji Gumilang filed a pretrial lawsuit regarding his determination as a suspect to the South Jakarta District Court. The defendant in the lawsuit is Sub-Directorate III Unit III of the Directorate of Special Economic Crimes at Bareskrim Polri.

"We are facing (Precise Court Lawsuit of Panji Gumilang)," said Director of Special Economic Crimes at Bareskrim Polri, Brigadier General Whisnu Hermawan, quoted Tuesday, April 23.

In addition, Whisnu conveyed that the process of determining the suspect against Panji Gumilang had complied with the rules. In addition, investigators did so based on sufficient evidence.

"According to the facts of the investigation, it is appropriate," said Whisnu.

On the other hand, regarding the handling of cases, it is said, investigators are still trying to complete the case file which was previously declared formally incomplete and permanent by the research prosecutor.

"Still 19 (the file for the Panji Gumilang TPPU case)," said Whisnu.

The trial of Panji Gumilang pretrial, registered with number 47/Pid.Pra/2024/PN JKT.SEL, is scheduled to take place on Thursday, April 25.

Meanwhile, the Criminal Investigation Unit of the National Police has confiscated a number of assets of Panji Gumilang in handling cases of alleged money laundering or money laundering. The assets confiscated included hundreds of billions of money, land, and cars.

In detail, five lands in Depok City covering an area of 866 square meters with a value of Rp6 billion. Then, 42 plots of land in Indramayu Regency with a total of 29.6 hectares estimated at Rp27.3 billion.

"Aset of vehicles with 3 units of Isuzu MUX cars worth IDR 1.1 billion," he said.

Then, investigators also confiscated money stored in 16 accounts of one bank worth Rp271 billion. There is also an account containing 480,700 US dollars or US dollars.

In this case, Panji Gumilang is suspected of violating Article 372 of the Criminal Code regarding embezzlement. Then, Article 70 in conjunction with Article 5 of Law Number 28 of 2004 concerning Amendments to Law Number 16 of 2001 concerning Foundations.

Finally, Panji Gumilang is also suspected of violating Article 3 Article 4 Article 5 in conjunction with Article 10 of Law Number 8 of 2010 concerning Money Laundering.