Court Frees TPPU Indictment Gazalba, ICW Calls Judge Wrong Understanding KPK Law

Supreme Court Justice Gazalba during a TPPU trial at the Jakarta Corruption Court (ANTARA)

JAKARTA - Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) accused the Jakarta Corruption Court Panel of Judges who tried the money laundering case of Supreme Court Justice Gazalba Saleh of misinterpreting the KPK Law Number 19 of 2019.

This was conveyed by ICW researcher Diky Anandya in response to Gazalba Saleh who was acquitted of the Money Laundering (TPPU) indictment today, Monday, May 27. He said it was wrong that the Jakarta Corruption Court Panel of Judges considered that the Director of Prosecution and Prosecutor of the KPK was not authorized to prosecute.

"We consider the judge's consideration to be wrong because it is not based on careful legal considerations," Diky told reporters in a written statement quoted on Tuesday, May 28.

Diky asked the Judicial Commission (KY) to intervene to look at the judge's decision. Do not let Gazalba actually benefit so that his actions cannot be accounted for.

In addition, the KPK was asked to fight the verdict handed down by the Jakarta Corruption Court Panel of Judges. "By filing an appeal to the High Court," he said.

This is because this wrong decision indicates two things. The first is that there is no obligation for prosecutors in the anti-corruption commission to receive a delegation letter from the Attorney General to carry out prosecution.

"Because Article 6 letter e Number 19 of 2019 states that the KPK leadership is the highest person in charge of carrying out the tasks of eradicating corruption, including investigations, investigations, and prosecution of corruption," said Diky.

In addition, judges should remember that the functions of investigations, investigations, and prosecutions carried out by the KPK were carried out autonomously. They were also formed with the concept of one roof, "he explained.

"Therefore, law enforcement, including the work of public prosecutors, does not require coordination with the Attorney General's Office," continued Diky.

As previously reported, the Jakarta Corruption Court ordered the KPK to release Supreme Court Justice Gazalba Saleh in a trial held today, Monday, May 27. This order came after the exception submitted was granted.

"To try, one, grant a note of objection from the legal advisory team of the defendant Gazalba Saleh," said Panel of Judges Fahzal Hendri.

This exception was granted because the judge assessed that the prosecutor at the KPK had not received an appointment from the Attorney General. Thus, the indictment submitted cannot be accepted.

Gazalba is also known to have been released from the entanglement of accepting bribery in case management at the Supreme Court (MA) worth 110 thousand Singapore dollars. At that time, the indictment against him was not proven by the Bandung Corruption Court.