Supreme Court Rejects KPK's Cassation In Bribery Case Of Nurhadi And His Son-in-law

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JAKARTA - The Supreme Court has decided to reject the appeal filed by the KPK in the corruption case related to the receipt of bribes by former Supreme Court Secretary Nurhadi and his son-in-law, Rezky Herbiyono.

With the rejection of the appeal, both Nurhadi and Rezky were not charged with the replacement money as requested by the KPK Public Prosecutor (JPU).

"The verdict: refuse", said the Supreme Court case information page, quoted by Antara on Wednesday, January 5.

The appeal was decided on December 24, 2021, by judges Surya Jaya, Sinintha Yuliansih Sibarani, and Desnayeti.

"Yes, Mr. Nurhadi's decision has permanent legal force and there is no obligation to pay compensation because there is no state loss", said Nurhadi's legal adviser, Maqdir Ismail, when confirmed.

Previously on July 13, 2021, the KPK prosecutor filed an appeal to the Supreme Court for several reasons, namely the length of the sentence for the agency that did not fulfill the sense of justice, the number of bribes and gratuities did not match what was demanded and there was no obligation to pay compensation to Nurhadi and Rezky Herbiyono.

It is known that on March 10, 2021, the Jakarta Corruption Court (Tipikor) sentenced Nurhadi and Rezky Herbiyono to a sentence of 6 years in prison plus a fine of IDR 13,787 billion.

This verdict is lower than the demands of the KPK prosecutors who asked that Nurhadi be sentenced to 12 years in prison plus a fine of IDR 1 billion, subsidiary to 6 months in prison, while his son-in-law Rezky Herbiyono was demanded to be in prison for 11 years plus a fine of IDR 1 billion, subsidiary to 6 months in prison.

The panel of judges at the Corruption Court also stated that Nurhadi and Rezky were not required to pay compensation of IDR 83.013 billion, a subsidiary of 2 years in prison as demanded by the KPK prosecutor.

The reason the panel of judges did not impose the obligation to pay replacement money was that the money Rezky received was private, not state money, so the panel concluded that there was no state loss.

In the first indictment, the panel of judges assessed that Nurhadi and Rezky were only proven to have received bribes worth IDR 35,726 billion from Hiendra Soenjoto related to the processing of two lawsuits.

The amount of bribe money is also different from the demands of the KPK prosecutor who stated that the two received bribes of IDR 45.726 billion from Hiendra Soenjoto.

Meanwhile, in the second indictment, Nurhadi together with Rezky were also deemed proven to have received gratuities amounting to IDR 13.787 billion.

The proven gratuity is again different from the demands of the KPK prosecutors who stated that both of them received IDR 37,287 billion.