Tanjungpinang Prosecutor Seizes IDR 4.3 Billion From Three BCA Accounts Owned By Drug Convict Ellen

The Tanjungpinang District Prosecutor's Office, Riau Islands, confiscated Rp. 4.3 billion of funds for evidence of money laundering (TPPU) from convict Ellen. ANTARA/HO-Kejari Tanjungpinang

TANJUNGPINANG - The Tanjungpinang District Prosecutor's Office (Kejari) of Tanjungpinang, Riau Islands, has seized Rp.

"The confiscation of the funds from three BCA accounts belonging to the convict Ellen in the ML case has permanent power," said Head of Intelligence at the Tanjungpinang Prosecutor's Office, Bambang Heri Purwanto in Tanjungpinang, as reported by Antara, Wednesday, April 13.

After this, said Heri Purwanto, the public prosecutor (JPU) will deposit the funds into the state treasury through a BRI Bank account.

According to him, the confiscation was based on the results of the Supreme Court's decision on February 24, 2022 which sentenced the convict Ellen to a prison sentence of 4 years and a fine of IDR 5 billion, subsidiary of 3 months in prison.

"The money confiscated was from the proceeds of drug crimes that flowed into the accounts of three convict companies, namely those engaged in contractors and mining," he said.

The convict Ellen was proven to have violated Article 3 in conjunction with Article 10 of Law Number 8 of 2010 concerning the Crime of Money Laundering. Previously, the Public Prosecutor of the Tanjungpinang Prosecutor's Office charged the defendant Ellen with a criminal sentence of 6 years in prison and a fine of Rp. 5 billion, subsidiary of 3 months in prison.

The panel of judges at the Tanjungpinang District Court sentenced the defendant Ellen to 3 years in prison and a fine of IDR 5 billion, subsidiary to 3 months in prison.

Against this decision, the Public Prosecutor's Office of Tanjungpinang filed an appeal to the Pekanbaru High Court (PT), Riau, which upheld the Tanjungpinang District Court's decision. On this appeal decision, the Public Prosecutor's Office of Tanjungpinang filed an appeal to the Supreme Court of the Republic of Indonesia.

Previously, the convict Ellen was secured by BNN investigators on suspicion of money laundering.

The convict accommodated and distributed hundreds of billions of rupiah in drug transaction funds from inmate Siang Fuk alias Nico at Gunung Sindur Prison, Bogor, West Java.