Bareskrim Targets Djoko Tjandra's Red Notice Files To Be Completed Next Week

Djoko Tjandra after undergoing an examination (Photo: Antara)

JAKARTA - Investigators at the Corruption Crime Directorate (Dittipikor), Bareskrim Polri are still completing the investigation files for the case of red notice Djoko Tjandra et al. It is targeted that this file will be completed next week.

"Still completing, this Sunday as soon as possible if this Sunday is complete, of course next Sunday will be delegated again," said Karo Penmas, Police Public Relations Division, Brigadier General Awi Setiyono to reporters, Friday, September 18.

Awi previously said that currently investigators are still coordinating with the prosecutor at the Attorney General's Office to complete the investigation files.

"At this time investigators are coordinating with the prosecutor to fulfill the instructions from the prosecutors regarding some material and formal deficiencies in the case files to be met immediately," Awi told reporters, Monday, September 14.

The National Police Headquarters previously handed over this file on Thursday, September 3. After being investigated by the investigating prosecutor, the Attorney General's Office was declared incomplete. Thus, Bareskrim will complete this file again.

In the case of the alleged removal of red notice bribery, investigators have named four people as suspects. They were Inspector General Napoleon Bonaparte and Brigadier General Prasetyo Utomo who were named suspects because they were suspected of being the recipients of bribes for the removal of red notice.

Both of them are charged with Article 5 Paragraph 2, Article 11 and Article 12 letters a and b of Law Number 20 of 2020 on Corruption (Tipikor) in conjunction with Article 55 of the Criminal Code.

Meanwhile, Tommy Sumardi and Djoko Tjandra were named as suspects on suspicion of giving bribes. Both of them were charged under Article 5 Paragraph 1, Article 13 of Law 20/2020 concerning Corruption (Tipikor) in conjunction with Article 55 of the Criminal Code.

In the bribery case, investigators confiscated US $ 20 thousand, cellphones, including CCTV as evidence.