KPK Suspects That Judge Itong Received Money From Many Litigants In The Surabaya District Court

KPK Deputy Chairman Nawawi Pomolango at a press conference regarding the OTT of judges at the Surabaya District Court/PHOTO: Wardhany Tsa Tsia-VOI

JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) suspects that the Surabaya District Court Judge, Itong Isnaini Hidayat, did not only accept money from the lawyer and attorney of PT Soyu Giri Primedika, Hendro Kasiono. He is suspected of receiving bribes from a number of litigants.

"KPK suspects that suspect IIH also received other gifts from litigants at the Surabaya District Court and this will be investigated further by the investigation team," said KPK Deputy Chair Nawawi Pomolango at a press conference at the KPK's Merah Putih Building, Kuningan Persada, Jakarta. South, Thursday, January 20.

Nawawi then explained about Itong's acceptance of bribes from Hendro Kasiono. He said Itong was the sole judge at the Surabaya District Court regarding the dissolution of PT SGP.

To facilitate the process, Hendro then prepared the money to be given to Itong in the amount of IDR 1.3 billion. The goal is that the judge's decision will be in accordance with his wishes, namely PT SGP can be dissolved with an asset value that can be divided up to IDR 50 billion.

Hendro also held meetings and communications with Hamdan, Substitute Registrar of the Surabaya District Court to discuss this matter and the results were always reported to Itong. In fact, in that communication, Hendro always disguised the giving of money by calling it a tribute.

As for the results of the communication, Itong then agreed but he asked for some money in return.

"Furthermore, around January 2022, suspect IIH informed and ensured that the application could be granted and asked suspect HD to convey to suspect HK to realize the amount of money that had been promised earlier," said Ghufron.

From that request, there was a handover of money from Hendro to Hamdan which led to the OTT on Wednesday, January 19 yesterday.

In this case, the KPK has named Itong and Hamdan as suspected bribe recipients. Meanwhile, Hendro was appointed as the bribe giver.

For their actions, Itong and Hamdan as bribe recipients were suspected of violating Article 12 letter C or Article 11 of the Law of the Republic of Indonesia Number 31 of 1999 concerning Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption as amended by Law of the Republic of Indonesia Number 20 of 2001 concerning Amendments to Law Number 31 of 1999 concerning Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption in conjunction with Article 55 paragraph (1) to 1 of the Criminal Code.

Meanwhile Hendro as a bribe giver is suspected of Article 6 paragraph (1) letter a or Article 13 of Law Number 31 of 1999 concerning the Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption as amended by Law Number 20 of 2001 concerning Amendments to Law Number 31 of 1999 concerning Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption in Article 55 paragraph (1).