Tanjungbalai Prosecutor Deposits IDR 808 Million In Looted Money From Drug Convicts

The Tanjungbalai District Attorney carried out the execution of cash worth Rp. 808,254,455.00 from the detention of the convict Karlina in Tanjungbalai, North Sumatra, Thursday (21/3/2024). ANTARA/HO-Kejari Tanjungbalai

The Tanjungbalai District Attorney carried out the execution of cash worth Rp. 808,254,455.00 from the convict Karlina Wati in a money laundering case (TPPU) related to a narcotics crime.

"The money will be deposited into the State as Non-Tax State Revenue (PNBP)," said Head of the Intelligence Section of the Tanjungbalai Kejari Andi Shahputra as quoted by ANTARA, Thursday, March 21.

Andi said the source of the convict TPPU was a narcotics case in 2022 with the decision of the Tanjungbalai District Court Number 166/Pid/Pid.Sus/2022/PN Tjb dated August 15, 2022.

In the decision of the Tanjungbalai District Court, said Andi, Karlina was legally and convincingly proven guilty of committing a criminal act together without the right to become an intermediary in the sale and purchase of narcotics class I in the form of non-plant weighing more than 5 grams.

Karlina was sentenced to 6 years in prison and a fine of Rp. 2.5 billion. If the fine is not paid, it will be replaced with 6 months in prison.

The defendant is subject to Article 114 paragraph (2) of Law Number 35 of 2009 concerning Narcotics in conjunction with Article 55 paragraph (1) of the 1st Criminal Code.

The defendant filed an appeal, but was rejected. The Supreme Court upheld the decision under Number 4880 K/Pid.Sus/2023 dated October 3, 2023, which has decided the case of the defendant Karlina Wati alias Karlina.

In the verdict, it was stated that the defendant Karlina Wati alias Karlina was legally and convincingly proven guilty of accepting a money transfer which was the result of a narcotics crime.

Furthermore, imposing a sentence on the defendant in prison for 1 year and a fine of Rp. 1,000,000,000.00. If the fine is not paid, it will be replaced with imprisonment for 3 months.

Cash amounting to Rp808,254,455.00 which has been blocked in the savings of a state bank in the name of Karlina Wati which was confiscated for the state.