Today's Hasto Trial: Two Experts Ready To Reveal New Facts!
JAKARTA - The trial of the alleged bribery case for the management of the Inter-Time Substitution (PAW) and the obstruction of the investigation with the defendant (Secretary General) PDIP, Hasto Kristiyanto, will be held again today. The plan is that the Public Prosecutor (JPU) will present two experts.
The experts are Bob Hardian Syahbuddin as a lecturer at the UI Faculty of Computer Sciences and Hafni Ferdian as a Forensic Examination / Investigator at the KPK Corruption Detection and Analysis Directorate.
"2 experts," said KPK Prosecutor Nur Haris Arhadi in a written statement, Monday, May 26.
The plan is that the trial, which is still in the evidentiary stage, will be opened or held at around 10.00 WIB.
In the alleged bribery case, Hasto was jointly charged with advocate Donny Tri Istiqomah; the former convict of the Harun Masiku case, Saeful Bahri; and Harun Masiku gave money amounting to 57,350 Singapore dollars or equivalent to Rp600 million to Wahyu in the 2019-2020 period.
The money is allegedly given with the aim that Wahyu seeks the KPU to approve an interim replacement request (PAW) for the Elected Legislative Candidate for the Electoral Region (Dapil) of South Sumatra (Sumsel) I on behalf of DPR Members for the 2019-2024 period Riezky Aprilia to Harun Masiku.
In addition, Hasto was also charged with obstructing the investigation by ordering Harun, through the Aspiration House guard, Nur Hasan, to submerge Harun's cell phone into the water after the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) arrested members of the General Election Commission (KPU) for the 2017-2022 period Wahyu Setiawan.
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Not only Harun Masiku's cellphone, Hasto is also said to have ordered his aide, Kusnadi, to drown his cell phone in anticipation of forced attempts by KPK investigators.
Hasto is threatened with a crime as regulated in Article 21 and Article 5 Paragraph (1) letter a or Article 13 of Law (UU) Number 31 of 1999 concerning Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption as amended and supplemented by Law Number 20 of 2001 in conjunction with Article 65 Paragraph (1) and Article 55 Paragraph (1) 1 jo. Article 64 Paragraph (1) of the Criminal Code