Proven To Be Inactive Bandung Walkot Bribery Yana Mulyana, KPK Prosecutor Demands President Director Of PT CIFO 2 Years In Prison

President Director of PT CIFO Sonny Setiadi, a defendant in the bribery case for internet network procurement at the Bandung Smart City project at the Bandung District Court, Wednesday (23/8/2023). (ANTARA/Ricky Prayoga)

The KPK prosecutor demanded a two-year prison sentence and a fine of Rp. 100 million, subsidiary to six months in prison, against the President Director (Managing Director) of PT. CIFO Sonny Setiadi, a defendant in the alleged bribery case in the procurement of internet service providers/ISP aka the internet network.

The prosecutor revealed that he was proven to have bribed a number of officials in the city of Bandung, including the inactive Bandung Mayor Yana Mulyana, with a value of Rp. 186 million so that he would get an internet procurement project in the city of Bandung.

"We, the public prosecutor, demand that the panel of judges of corruption at the Bandung District Court, who examine and try, decide that one of the defendants is guilty of committing a criminal act on the first alternative indictment," said KPK Prosecutor Tito Jaelani at the Bandung District Court, Wednesday, August 23, which was confiscated by Antara.

With the facts described, Tito continued, the prosecutor asked the panel of judges to impose a two-year sentence, with a fine of Rp. 100 million, subsidiary to six months in prison.

"Two, impose a sentence in the form of imprisonment for two years reduced while in prison, a fine of Rp. 100 million, subsidiary to six months," he said.

Tito said the aggravating consideration for the defendant was not supporting the corruption eradication program, while the mitigating one had never been convicted, had responsibilities and pleaded guilty.

In the trial of the charges, Sonny was deemed to have violated the provisions stated in the first alternative indictment, namely Article 5 paragraph 1 letter a or Article 13 of the Corruption Eradication Law in conjunction with Article 64 paragraph 1 of the Criminal Code.

After the trial, Sonny's attorney, Wildan Mukhlisin, stated that he would deny the prosecutor's demands through a memorandum of defense or plea, because according to him there were a number of facts about the trial that escaped the prosecutor's demands, such as the question of a project request made by his client.

"It was conveyed in the indictment that there was a request for a project, even from the facts of the trial there was no project agreement from either the official or from our client," he said.

Due to the absence of a project request and plans to give money from his client, he said the defendant had no malicious intent.

"Our client has no mens rea or malicious intent," he concluded.