Case Of Fraudulent Travel Letters Joko Tjandra, Brigadier General Prasetijo Utomo Sentenced To 3 Years In Prison

Brigadier General Prasetijo Utomo (ANTARA)

JAKARTA - The panel of judges at the East Jakarta District Court sentenced Brig. Gen. Prasetijo Utomo to three years in prison in connection with a fake pass. Brigadier General Prasetijo was found guilty of falsifying travel documents.

"Sentenced the defendant Prasetijo Utomo to imprisonment for 3 years," said the presiding judge Muhammad Sirat while reading out the verdict at the East Jakarta District Court, Tuesday, December 22.

The sentence of three years in prison was based on burdensome and mitigating considerations. For burdensome matters, Brigadier General Prasetijo Utomo used fake letters twice, to be precise on 6 and 8 June 2020.

Then, Brigadier General Prasetijo, who at that time served as Head of the Coordinating and Supervision Bureau of the National Police Criminal Investigation Unit, did not carry out the mandate of the state and instead took advantage of it.

Meanwhile, for relief, Brigadier General Prasetijo has served as a member of the Police for almost 30 years. Then, he has also served a sentence during the trial process.

"Relieve the defendant for almost 30 years claiming to be a member of the Police, considering that because the defendant has undergone the law, according to the provisions of Article 12 of the Criminal Code, he will pay the court fee," he explained.

According to the judge, Brigadier General Prasetijoa ordered someone to make a fake pass.

In addition, Brigadier General Prasetijo also ordered Johny Andrijanto, who was his subordinate, to burn letters that were suspected of being fake. This was done to eliminate traces of his crime.

"The defendant Prasetijo has been legally and convincingly proven guilty of committing a criminal act by ordering falsification of letters to continue in the first primary indictment and committing the criminal act of allowing the person deprived of their liberty to escape continuously in the second indictment," said judge Sirat.

"And committing a criminal act after committing a crime with the intention of covering up destroying objects with the name of a criminal act is carried out jointly in the third indictment," he continued.