Three Times KPK Trials Not Presenting Ade Yasin, Attorney Protests To Prosecutors

Ade Yasin's trial at the Bandung Corruption Court/Photo: Antara

BANDUNG - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) public prosecutor again did not present face-to-face with the defendant, the inactive Bogor Regent, Ade Yasin, at the third trial of the alleged bribery of the West Java Representative Audit Agency. in Court Room IV Soebekti at the Bandung Tipikor District Court, Bandung, Monday, July 25. His attorney, Roynal Pasaribu, admitted that he objected to this condition because his client had difficulty hearing the prosecutor's response during the online trial. The defendant was presented offline. By not being able to listen to the prosecutor's response to the objection note, this is a loss for the defendant," said Pasaribu quoted by Antara. Moreover, according to him, now his client has been placed in the Bandung Detention Center, no longer in the Polda Metro Jaya Detention Center, Jakarta. Meanwhile, the chairman of the panel of judges, Hera Kartiningsih, said emphasize that the defendant was not present because the person in charge of the detention house was worried that the detainees who were in custody could transmit the virus when they were in and out of the detention house. But what is certain is that if every witness examination of the accused will be submitted back and forth, it will be dangerous for the other detainees. Especially now that it's Covid," he said, responding to Pasaribu's objections. The next hearing will be held on Monday August 1 with an interim decision agenda from the panel of judges at the Bandung Tipikor District Court in Bandung.