Judge Sentenced Uncle Gembong Drug Fredy Pratama 2.5 Years In Prison

Chairman of the Panel of Judges Yusriansyah sentenced the defendant Satria Gunawan alias Babah who was said to be the uncle of international drug kingpin Fredy Pratama to imprisonment of 2 years and 6 months during the reading of the verdict at the Banjarmasin District Court.

"The defendant was also decided to pay a fine of Rp. 2 billion, subsidiary to three months in prison," said Yusriansyah in Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan, as reported by ANTARA, Monday, July 15.

Then all assets that have been confiscated and allegedly from the proceeds of money laundering (TPPU) narcotics business were completely confiscated for the state.

The panel of judges stated that the defendant had been proven to have committed money laundering as stated in Articles 3, 4, 5 and 10 of Law Number 8 of 2010 concerning the Prevention and Eradication of the Crime of Money Laundering and or Article 137 letter a and Law Number 35 of 2009 concerning Narcotics in conjunction with Article 55 (1) to 1 of the Criminal Code.

In the facts of the trial, it was revealed that the defendant's activities received a flow of funds sourced from Fredy Pratama, either through the convict Lian Silas or several accomplices to Fredy in the drug business.

Satria Gunawan was arrested by the Criminal Investigation Unit of the National Police and the Directorate of Drug Investigation of the South Kalimantan Police for being involved in the flow of Fredy Pratama funds with assets confiscated 48 plots of land and buildings spread across South Kalimantan and Central Kalimantan worth Rp55 billion.

Previously, the judge of the Banjarmasin District Court had also sentenced Lian Silas, Fredy Pratama's father, to one year and eight months in prison and to pay a fine of Rp. 2 billion, subsidiary to one month in prison and all assets suspected of being confiscated from the narcotics business. entirely for the state.

Both Lian Silas and Satria Gunawan have been proven to be recipients of the flow of funds from the drug business, Fredy Pratama, by transferring their assets to various businesses as a money laundering mode.