South Jakarta District Court Rejects Pretrial Lawsuit Panji Gumilang Related To Money Laundering

The atmosphere of the Panji Gumilang pretrial hearing at the South Jakarta District Court, Tuesday (14/5/2024). BETWEEN/Khaerul Izan)

The South Jakarta District Court rejected the pretrial lawsuit filed by the Al-Zaytun Abdussalam Islamic Boarding School leader Panji Gumilang regarding whether or not the determination of the suspect in the crime of money laundering (TPPU) by the Criminal Investigation Unit of the Police. "In the main case rejecting the pretrial application in its entirety," said South Jakarta District Court (PN) Sole Judge Estiono when reading the pretrial decision of Panji Gumilang in Jakarta, Antara, Tuesday, May 14. He said the exception submitted by the applicant was also unacceptable, so all applications of the respondent related to the Panji Gumilang case were rejected. For this reason, South Jakarta District Court Tunggal Judge Estiono ordered the applicant to pay the court fee in the pretrial hearing to Panji Gumilang of nil. "The trial in the petitioner's exception stated that it was not the pretrial authority that could not be accepted. Charged the applicant with zero court fees. This was decided today, Tuesday, May 14," he said. Meanwhile, Panji Gumilang's attorney, Alvin Lim, admitted that he was disappointed with the judge's decision which rejected the overall application that had been submitted. He assessed that the judges had been intervened by outside parties, because the day before the verdict there were several institutions commenting on the case. "Of course we are disappointed with this decision. The judge did not take information from both parties," he said. The trial for the pretrial decision of Panji Gumilang was read out by Judge Tunggal Estiono, where in his consideration mentioned a number of reasons related to the rejection of the pretrial lawsuit. One of the main points is that the determination of the suspect to Panji Gumilang has fulfilled two elements of evidence so that it has been declared valid. Investigators from the Directorate of Special Economic Crimes (Dittipideksus) of the Criminal Investigation Unit of the National Police have named Abdurrahman Panji Gumilang (APG) as a suspect in the alleged money laundering case (TPPU), with the initial crime of embezzlement of foundation money. The decision to increase the status of Panji Gumilang from the reported suspect was taken after investigators together with the internal and external team of the National Police conducted a case title on Thursday. "The conclusion of the results of the title of the case is that APG has fulfilled the above, and raised its status as a suspect in the articles," said the Director of Special Economic Crimes (Dirtipideksus) of the National Police Criminal Investigation Agency Brigadier General Pol. Whisnu Hermawan at the Jakarta Police Headquarters, Thursday 26 November 2023. Whisnu explained that in this case, Panji Gumilang as the Head of the Indonesian Islamic Boarding School Foundation (YPI) applied for a loan to a bank, then the money went into a personal account, while the loan installments were paid from the Indonesian Islamic Boarding School Foundation money.

From the analysis of the case title, he said, investigators had evidence that Panji Gumilang in 2019 had received a loan from Bank JTrush in the amount of Rp73 billion.