Prosecutor: KPK Confessions That Hasbi Hasan Was Intimidated By Investigators Only Looking For A Sensai

The trial for reading the public prosecutor's response to Hasbi Hasan's defense at the Jakarta Corruption Court (Tipikor), Monday (25/03/2024). ANTARA/Agatha Olivia Victoria

JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) prosecutor assessed that Hasbi Hasan's inactive Secretary of the Supreme Court (MA) regarding the intimidation of KPK investigators against him was only a sensation.

KPK prosecutor Arif Rahman Irsady said that Hasbi did not prove the truth.

"The defendant's statement must of course be proven to be true accompanied by evidence, so that it does not constitute slander or just want to seek sensation," said Arif as quoted by ANTARA, Monday, March 25.

The public prosecutor asked the panel of judges to refuse and ignore the statement. The request was followed by a request by the KPK prosecutor to the panel of judges to reject all of Hasbi's defense and his legal advisers, as well as impose crimes according to the demands of the public prosecutor.

According to him, Hasbi Hasan's defense by admitting that the intimidation from KPK investigators was almost similar to the defense of former Commissioner of PT Wika Beton Dadan Tri Yudianto at the trial some time ago. Dadan, who is an intermediary in the Hasbi case, has been sentenced to 5 years in prison.

If Hasbi feels the intimidation is a fact and has been harmed, the prosecutor said that Hasbi should have reported it to the authorities so that the confession would not become a misleading wild issue without any supporting evidence.

Moreover, he continued, Hasbi has scientific capacity in the field of law and is very familiar with the legal process for the principle of proof of criminal law in court.

In addition, Arif explained, there were other irregularities regarding Hasbi's confession, namely that the defendant had just conveyed intimidation during the reading of the defense or plea, where Hasbi had gone through the evidentiary process at the trial of the defendant's case.

Thus, he is of the opinion that Hasbi conveyed the recognition of intimidation by KPK personnel without any evidence just to escape the criminal snares and in a cornered position because the legal facts proven in court clearly prove the truth of Hasbi's bribery and gratification.

"The confession was only made to describe the defendant as a person who was wronged during the legal process of the case, which aims to obscure the fact that the defendant committed a criminal act of corruption," he said.

Previously, Hasbi Hasan when reading his personal defense note at the Jakarta Corruption Court, Thursday (21/3), admitted that he was verbally intimidated by unscrupulous KPK investigators when he was examined as a witness in the investigation into the Intidana Savings and Loans Cooperative (KSP) case.

He said the KPK personnel asked Hasbi to change the Search Minutes (BAP) and be threatened if he didn't do that.

The KPK investigator, said Hasbi, also bullied the security of the MA's office and public relations employees. However, Hasbi did not specify the context that occurred at that time.

Hasbi is a defendant in the alleged bribery and gratification case management case of KSP Intidana at the cassation level in the Supreme Court. He was charged with 13 years and 8 months in prison and a fine of Rp. 1 billion, subsidiary to imprisonment for 6 months.

Hasbi was also charged with additional penalties to pay compensation in the amount of Rp3.88 billion no later than one month after the court's decision obtained a permanent sentence subsidiary to 3 years in prison.

In the indictment, Hasbi is said to have violated Article 12 letter a in conjunction with Article 18 of the Anti-Corruption Law (UU) in conjunction with Article 55 paragraph (1) 1 of the Criminal Code in conjunction with Article 64 paragraph (1) of the Criminal Code and Article 12 Bjuncto Article 18 of the Anti-Corruption Law in conjunction with Article 65 paragraph (1) of the Criminal Code.