TRENATE - The inactive Governor of North Maluku (Malut), Abdul Gani Kasuba (AGK) and his aide Ramdhani did not deny the testimony from the witness and admitted asking for money from the two defendants of the Head of PUPR Daud Ismail and the Head of the North Maluku Perkim Office, Adnan Hasanuddin.

"I was ordered by the Governor to ask for help from the Head of Daud and Adnan, then they transferred it through my account," said Ramdhani and the follow-up trial of witnesses in the Corruption Crime case at the Ternate District Court (PN) as reported by ANTARA, Wednesday, March 27.

AGK admitted that it had ordered Ramadani to ask for help from both Daud and Adnan.

However, when asked by the assembly whether he ordered the Selection Committee (Pansel) so that Adnan could get the highest score.

"I only received three names who escaped from the Pansel including Adnan and I chose him as the head of Perkim," said AGK.

In a follow-up trial with the defendant former Head of PUPR Malut Daud Ismail and former Head of Perkim Malut Adnan Hasanuddin, the Public Prosecutor at the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) presented witnesses to the Manager of Bank Mandiri City Branch of Ternate, Riski Firmansyah, driver Daud Ismail Renaldi and Rina (Beharana PUPR) and inactive North Maluku Governor Abdul Gani Kasuba (AGK) and Adjutant Ramadani Ibrahim virtually.

Riski said in his testimony, based on evidence of Bank Mandiri's recapitulation from 2019-2023, there were thousands of transactions to Accounts in the names of Zaldi Kasuba and Ramadani (AGK Adjutant) with a total of tens of billions.

Meanwhile, Witness Renaldi, said that he was asked by the defendant Daud Ismail to order him to make an account with a platinum ATM on his behalf.

"After making money with the smallest amount of Rp. 50 million and the largest Rp. 200 million with a total of Rp. 2.3 billion, but I don't know who sent it, I was only told by Mr. Daud (The defendant) that there was money coming in," he said.

Renaldi continued, from every money that came in, he was ordered by the defendant Daud to transfer back to Ramadani and to Zaldi Kasuba.

"And there have been several cash withdrawals with a total of Rp. 15 million on Mr. Daud's orders to buy his son's milk and also Mr. Daud's operational costs," he explained.

Meanwhile, Witness Rina, in her testimony, admitted that he had been asked several times by Mr. Daud to transfer money to the Governor through his aide.

"The money transferred used official travel money from Pak Daud," he explained.


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