Prosecutor's Trial Embezzled Money-Gives False Information, Prosecutor's Office Purwokerto Asks Defendant To Remain Detained

The criminal trial with the defendant at the initials Pnd at the Purwokerto District Court, Banyumas, Wednesday (20/3/2024). (ANTARA/Sumarwoto)

Prosecutors of the Purwokerto District Attorney's Office (Kejari) asked the panel of judges to continue to detain Pnd (63), lawyers and defendants in cases of embezzlement of money, false information, forgery of letters, and embezzlement.

The request was submitted by the Public Prosecutor in a follow-up hearing on the agenda for reading the replica or the prosecutor's answer to the defendant's exception at the Purwokerto District Court, Banyumas Regency, Central Java, Wednesday, March 20.

"In this replica, we declare that the exception of the defendant or his legal advisor cannot be accepted," said the representative of the Public Prosecutor, Pranoto, quoted from Antara.

In addition, he said, the indictment of the Public Prosecutor Number for the Registration of PDM-02/PKRTO/Eku.2/02/2024 dated February 21, 2024 is valid in accordance with the provisions of Article 143 paragraph (2) of the Criminal Procedure Code.

"Therefore, we ask for a case on behalf of the defendant Pramudya, the son of Ong Thai Pun (late) with criminal case Number 27/Pid.B/2024/PN.Pwt on March 1, 2024, the examination will continue, and ask that the defendant Pramudya be detained," he said.

Meanwhile, in his duplicate, the defendant PMd's legal adviser, Nurachman Kuncoroadi, remained consistent with the exception stating that the prosecutor's indictment against his client had run away.

According to him, this is related to the full name and age of the defendant in the Notice of Commencement of Investigation (SPDP) not in accordance with the identity card (KTP) concerned.

In this regard, he asked the Public Prosecutor to stop the case because Article 263 of the Criminal Code relating to forgery, Article 266 of the Criminal Code regarding false information, as well as Articles 264 and 372 of the Criminal Code which were charged against his client could not be proven in the indictment, so it was null and void.

Embezzlement of IDR 190 million

The defendant Pnd is a lawyer with thedomilitation of Salatiga City, Central Java. In this case, Ida was charged with embezzling Rp190 million and giving false information and falsifying letters.

The defendant Pnd together with Cherry Dewayanto (who is a convict in a separate case file) as decided by the Supreme Court of the Republic of Indonesia Number 419K/Pid/2023 on Friday, February 10, 2017, at the Purwokerto KPKNL Office, had Rp. 2,500,500 which was the result of the auction of four land certificates belonging to witnesses on behalf of Lisanjati Utomo Binti Widyo Utomo (late) which were used as collateral.

Furthermore, Pnd, armed with a power of attorney from the witness on behalf of Cherry Dewayanto, submitted an Application for Implementation of Guarantee Auctions to KPKNL Purwokerto with Letter Number 001/SK/AM-01/02/2017 dated 10 February 2017 to guarantees in the form of four land certificates belonging to Lisanjati Utomo.

It is known that the auction was held because witness Cherry Dewayanto represented the Artha Megah Surakarta Multi-Business Cooperative (KSU), which turned out to be no longer operating because its operational permit was valid until January 25, 2015.

Although he is no longer serving at KSU Artha Megah Surakarta, witness Cherry Dewayanto received Rp2,500,000,500 and PMd received Rp190,000,000 from the results of the auction of the four land certificates belonging to witness Lisanjati Utomo.