KPK Prosecutor Opens Opportunity To Present Febri Diansyah As A Witness In The SYL Extortion Case

Lawyer for former Minister of Agriculture (Mentan) Syahrul Yasin Limpo, Febri Diansyah (Tsa Tsia/VOI)

The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) prosecutor opened the opportunity to present Febri Diansyah as a witness in the alleged extortion and gratification case at the Ministry of Agriculture (Kementan) with the defendant Syahrul Yasin Limpo or SYL.

Febri Diansyah is known to be a former spokesman for the KPK. In addition, he was also SYL's attorney.

"Yes, I can. Very well," said KPK prosecutor Meyer Simanjuntak as quoted on Thursday, April 25.

The reason for the possibility of presenting Febri Diansyah was because there was testimony at the trial which stated that the former SYL attorney had gathered witnesses. Allegedly to be directed when giving testimony before the panel of judges.

"So in the previous trial there were several witnesses who claimed to be summoned by the legal advisory team, when we asked, the legal advisory team was Mas Febri Diansyah and Donal Fariz's legal advisory team," he said.

"They once called, gathered several witnesses, including witnesses who had been present, namely Panji (ex SYL aide) and Karina yes, there were several people who were collected during the investigation stage," Meyer continued.

If later Febri Diansyah can be presented at the trial, the public prosecutor (JPU) will also explore the legal opinion documents.

Because, when the case of alleged extortion and gratification is still under investigation, the data listed on the document is so complete and rijit.

The legal opinion document was found by the KPK when conducting a series of searches related to the handling of suspected corruption cases at the Ministry of Agriculture.

"Because it has also become evidence made by them, a kind of legal opinion has also been confiscated, it was also found, the legal opinion and we will see how it is possible, only the investigation stage has been completed, so in detail, right, we will ask if it was leaked, if it was leaked from whom, right," said Meyer.