Case Files Of 7 Members Of PPLN Kuala Lumpur Suspects Of Election Cheating Declared Complete

Kapuspenkum Attorney General's Office Ketut Sumedana/DOK AGO

The Attorney General's Office stated that the case files for the alleged election crime by seven former members of the Kuala Lumpur Foreign Election Committee (PPLN), Malaysia were complete or P-21.

"The team of investigating prosecutors at the Junior Attorney General for General Crimes has declared complete formally and materially (P-21) the case files for the suspect seven former members of PPLN Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia with the initials UF and friends," said the Head of the Legal Information Center (Kapuspenkum) of the Attorney General's Office, Ketut Sumedana, as reported by ANTARA, Wednesday, March 6.

The Research Prosecutor's Team (P-19), which consists of nine prosecutors, was led by the Head of Sub-Directorate for Pre-Prosecution at the Directorate of Crimes Against National Security, Public Order and Other General Crimes Syahrul Juaksha Subuki, moved quickly to examine case files since they were transferred.

Investigators from the Directorate of General Crimes (Dittipidum) of the Criminal Investigation Unit of the National Police handed over stage one case files to the Attorney General's Office on Monday (4/3), the Research Prosecutor's Team (P-16) worked for three days to examine case files.

"The Research Prosecutor's Team worked for three days to check case files," said Ketut.

He explained that the seven suspects were suspected of committing election crimes under the suspicion of Article 545 and/or Article 544 of Law Number 7 of 2017 concerning General Elections.

"The files of the seven PPLN members are related to the alleged criminal case of alleged addition and falsification of the Fixed Voter List (DPT) data in the implementation of the General Election in Kuala Lumpur," he said.

The alleged addition and falsification of data, said Ketut, occurred after the General Elections Commission (KPU) issued a population of potential election voters (DP4) of 493,856 votes for the Kuala Lumpur area.

Meanwhile, according to the Minutes of Event Number: 009/PP/05. I-BA/078/2023 dated June 21, 2023, the total recapitulation of DPT reported by PPLN Kuala Lumpur was 447,258 voters.

Meanwhile, data belonging to the KPU that has been matched and researched directly by the Voter Data Update Officer (Pantarih) is 64,148 voters.

Ketut said that after being declared complete, the Research Prosecutor's Team then asked the Investigators of the General Crime Directorate of Bareskrim Polri to hand over the responsibility of the suspect and evidence to the Public Prosecutor (Phase II).

"Phase II is to determine whether the case has met the requirements to be transferred to court," said Ketut.

Previously, the Directorate of General Crimes (Dittipidum) of the Criminal Investigation Unit of the National Police named seven members of the Kuala Lumpur Foreign Election Committee (PPLN), Malaysia, as suspects in alleged election crimes related to the increase in the number of voters.

The determination of the suspect was carried out after investigators conducted a case title on Wednesday (28/2) in the Subdit IV Dittipidum Meeting Room.

The investigation of this case has been carried out since investigators received a police report with the number: LP/B/60/II/SPKT Bareskrim Polri, dated February 20, 2024 with the reporter Rizky Al Farzie.

From the police report, a Kabareskeim warrant was issued Number: Sprin/1635/II/RES.1.24./2024/Bareskrim, dated February 28, 2024.

The results of the case title found that there were allegations of criminal acts in the form of intentionally adding or reducing the voter list in the election after the stipulation of a fixed voter list and/or intentionally falsifying the data and voter list that occurred in the period around June 21, 2023 until now.