KPK Prosecutor Opens Up At Azis Syamsuddin's Trial: A Series Of Lies To Create A New Building

Former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives Muhammad Azis Syamsuddin after undergoing a trial reading the demands at the Corruption Crime Court (Tipikor) Jakarta, Monday (24/1/2022). (ANTARA/Desca Lidya Natalia)

JAKARTA - The KPK Public Prosecutor (JPU) said there were lies that were assembled into a new building in the case of the former Deputy Speaker of the DPR from the Golkar Party faction, Azis Syamsuddin, unfortunately the sequence was not precise.

"Weaving a lie is like building a series of new buildings in order to 'replace' old buildings but it is dominant that not all old buildings can be 'replaced' because they still stand firmly and cannot be replaced," as stated in the letter of demand read by the KPK prosecutor in Jakarta Corruption Court (Tipikor), reported by Antara, Monday, January 24.

KPK Public Prosecutor Lie Putra Setiawan emphasized that Azis Syamsuddin was required to be sentenced to 4 years and 2 months in prison plus a fine of Rp.

"As a result, the construction of a series of new buildings is trying to be adapted to the old buildings which are impossible to 'replace'. This effort will certainly be maximized but in fact it is very difficult to build with equal quality and in harmony with the old buildings, as a result it appears that the buildings appear inconsistent. precision," said the prosecutor.

In this case, the KPK prosecutor believes that Azis Syamsuddin was proven to have given bribes worth Rp. 3.099 billion and US$36 thousand, bringing the total to around Rp.3.619 billion to former KPK investigator Stepanus Robin Pattuju and advocate Maskur Husain.

Initially, the KPK investigated allegations of corruption in the form of accepting gifts or promises related to the management of the Special Allocation Fund (DAK) of the Central Lampung Regency Budget for the 2017 Fiscal Year since 8 October 2019 where it was suspected that Azis and Aliza Gunado were involved as bribe recipients.

Azis tried to prevent himself and Aliza Gunado from being suspects by the KPK, by seeking help from KPK investigators and being introduced to Stepanus Robin, who has been a KPK investigator since August 15, 2019 from the National Police.

Azis then met with Stepanus Robin at Azis' official residence in August 2020 to take care of the case involving Azis and Aliza related to the KPK investigation in Central Lampung.

Stepanus Robin and Maskur Husain expressed their willingness to help in exchange for a sum of Rp. 4 billion with a calculation of Rp. 2 billion each from Azis and Aliza Gunado, with an advance of Rp. 300 million and Azis agreed.

Azis gave the advance payment to Stepanus Robin and Maskur Husain, with the distribution of Stepanus Robin receiving Rp. 100 million and Maskur Husain receiving Rp. 200 million. The money was transferred from Azis' BCA account in four stages, amounting to Rp50 million each, namely on 2, 3, 4 and 5 August 2020. On 5 August 2020, Azis again gave 100 thousand US dollars in cash to Stepanus Robin at Azis' official residence is on Jalan Denpasar Raya, South Jakarta.

Some of the US dollars that Azis gave, amounting to 36 thousand US dollars, were handed over to Maskur Husain in front of the Central Jakarta District Court, while the remaining 64 thousand US dollars were exchanged at a "money changer" for a total of Rp 936 million.

Part of the money from the exchange was given to Maskur Husain of Rp. 300 million in early September 2020 at the Borero Keramat Sentiong restaurant.

In addition to these gifts from August 2020 to March 2021, Azis also gave money to Stepanus Robin and Maskur Husain several times, the total amount being 171,900 Singapore dollars.

Stepanus Robin then exchanged the money at a "money changer" using the identities of Agus Susanto and Rizky Cinde Awaliyah (a friend of Stepanus Robin) into rupiah in the amount of IDR 1,863,887,000.

Some of the money was then given to Maskur Husain, namely in early September 2020 in the amount of IDR 1 billion and IDR 800 million still in September 2020.

Azis Syamsuddin is scheduled to read a memorandum of defense (pleidoi) on Thursday, February 3, 2022.