JAKARTA - The Corruption Court (Tipikor) sentenced former Director of Business Development of PT Perusahaan Perdagangan Indonesia (Persero) or PPI Charles Sitorus to 4 years in prison for being proven to have committed corruption in the case of sugar importation at the Ministry of Trade in 2015-2016.
In addition to imprisonment, the defendant Charles was also sentenced to a fine of Rp. 750 million, provided that if the fine was not paid, it would be replaced (subsidiary) with imprisonment for 6 months.
"Declaring that the defendant Charles Sitorus is legally and convincingly proven guilty of committing a criminal act of corruption that was committed jointly," said Chief Judge Dennie Arsan Fatricea when reading the verdict in a trial reported by ANTARA, Friday, July 18.
The presiding judge stated that Charles violated Article 2 paragraph (1) of Law Number 31 of 1999 concerning the Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption as amended and supplemented by Law Number 20 of 2001 in conjunction with Article 55 paragraph (1) of the 1st Criminal Code.
In passing the verdict, the Panel of Judges considered several aggravating and mitigating circumstances.
The burdensome situation, namely Charles, does not carry out good governance in State-Owned Enterprises (BUMN), has neglected the public's interest as a final consumer of white crystal sugar to get it at a stable and affordable price, and has enriched others.
Meanwhile, the mitigating factors considered in the form of Charles being considered to have never been convicted, not enjoying the results of the corruption crimes he committed, being polite so as not to complicate the proceedings, and there has been a deposit of money to the Attorney General's Office investigators as a form of compensation for state losses in the case.
The criminal sentence handed down by the Panel of Judges was the same as the previous prosecutor's demands, namely 4 years in prison and a fine of Rp. 750 million, subsidiary to imprisonment for 6 months.
In this case, Charles was charged with participating in the alleged corruption case of sugar importation at the Ministry of Trade in 2015 '2016.
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The unlawful act allegedly enriched other parties worth Rp295.15 billion and cost the state finances Rp578.1 billion.
Charles was charged with not carrying out the assignment to form a national sugar stock and the establishment of a national sugar price according to the benchmark price of farmers (HPP) and did not cooperate with the State-Owned Enterprises producing sugar, as in the 2016 PT PPI Company Work Plan and Budget.
Charles is also suspected of making an agreement to regulate the selling price of white crystal sugar from refined sugar producers to PT PPI, including regulating the selling price of sugar and producers to PT PPI and regulating the selling price from PT PPI to distributors above HPP together with eight companies.
The eight companies are referred to, namely with the President Director of PT Angels Products Tony Wijaya, Director of PT Makassar Tene Then Surianto Eka Prasetyo, President Director of PT Sentra Usahatama Jaya Hansen Setiawan, and President Director of PT Medan Sugar Industry Indra Suryadiningrat.
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