Zarof Ricar Receives CCTV Footage Of Ronald Tannur's Case From Lisa Rachmat

JAKARTA - Former Supreme Court (MA) official Zarof Ricar is said to have received CCTV footage of a murder case with the defendant Gregorius Ronald Tannur. The recording was given on the orders of Lisa Rachmat.

This was conveyed by Stephanie Christel, who is Lisa Rachmat's nephew as well as a witness from the public prosecutor (JPU) at the trial of the alleged bribery case of Gregorius Ronald Tannur's acquittal with the defendants three inactive judges at the Surabaya District Court, Erintuah Damanik, Mangapul and Heru Hanindy.

It started when the public prosecutor (JPU) questioned whether or not to discuss the handling of the case. This is because the witness is known to have had an internship at Lisa Rachmat's lawyer's office.

Witness Stephanie then said that she had never discussed this matter. The prosecutor who heard the statement again asked more specifically regarding the Ronald Tannur case.

"Have you never discussed the case of Gregorius Ronald Tannur?" asked the prosecutor during a trial at the Jakarta Corruption Court, Tuesday, February 18.

"If that's the language of CCTV," replied the witness.

Then, the witness said that Lisa Rachmat asked to deliver a copy of the CCTV footage of the Ronald Tannur case to Zarof Ricar. The copy was on the wrong USB.

"Just bahas CCTV because I have a USB that you gave me, now that's CCTV, I was asked to take my mother to Mr. Ricar. So I continued to show it there, yes to Mr. Zarof to watch it," said the witness.

The prosecutor then questioned that the witness had not yet seen the CCTV footage. Stephanie firmly stated that she had seen it.

"It describes what it is related to? What's the scene?" asked the prosecutor.

"Yes, regarding the condition of the late Dini, it looks light in the car, on the left side of the car. Then where is the movement of the car, Gregorius Ronald Tannur's brother continued to move. It was there, and it was in the basement of his condition," said the witness.

Jeksa confirmed the witness' testimony by questioning whether what was said from Zarof Ricar's mouth after receiving the recording. The witness said that the former Supreme Court official did not say anything.

"Yes, just hand it over, show it like that, I explained, this is sir, it looks like it's here, but there are also some parts that are closed because of car lights, it's not clear either," said the witness.

Meanwhile, the three inactive judges of the Surabaya District Court who were charged with accepting bribes in the form of gifts or promises amounting to Rp4.67 billion and gratuities in cases of alleged bribery and gratuities for granting acquittal to the convicted murder of Ronald Tannur in 2024.

In addition to bribes, the three are also suspected of receiving gratuities in the form of rupiah and various foreign currencies, namely Singapore dollars, Malaysian ringgit, Japanese yen, euro, and Saudi riyals.

Thus, the actions of the defendants are regulated and subject to criminal penalties in Article 12 letter c or Article 6 Paragraph (2) or Article 5 Paragraph (2) and Article 12 B in conjunction with Article 18 of Law (UU) Number 31 of 1999 concerning Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption as amended by Law Number 20 of 2001 jo. Article 55 Paragraph (1) of the 1st Criminal Code.

In detail, the bribes allegedly received by the three judges included Rp1 billion and 308 thousand Singapore dollars or Rp3.67 billion (exchange rate of Rp11,900).