Nurhadi Asked To Move Prison Due To Health And Old Age, KPK: Excessive Reasons!

Former MA Secretary Nurhadi (Photo: Antara)

JAKARTA - The defendant in a bribery and gratuity case who is also a former Secretary of the Supreme Court (MA) Nurhadi proposed to move the detention center to the Jakarta High Court. The reason for this submission is due to health and old age factors.

Responding to this proposal, Acting KPK spokesman Ali Fikri said that his party would certainly appreciate the request. However, he considered that the reasons given by Nurhadi were excessive.

"The defendant's reasons are exaggerated," said Ali in his written statement to reporters, Sunday, March 21.

He emphasized that so far the KPK has fulfilled the rights of detainees and defendants in the KPK detention center, including health matters. In fact, this prison has a clinic that is ready to check the health of prisoners at any time.

In addition, the KPK also mentioned that Nurhadi had not been cooperative both in the investigation and trial processes. So, the anti-corruption commission hopes that this proposal will be rejected by the panel of judges.

"Because we are of the view that there is absolutely no urgency to transfer the prisoners in question," said Ali.

It is known, at this time, Nurhadi was placed in the KPK Detention Center Kavling C-1 Branch. Together with his son-in-law, Riezky Herbiyono, he was sentenced to 6 years in prison and a fine of Rp. 500 million, a subsidiary of 3 months.

Nurhadi was proven proven to have received bribes amounting to Rp35,726 billion and gratuities from a number of parties amounting to Rp. 13,787 billion.

The verdict was lower than the demands of the KPK public prosecutor (JPU) who asked Nurhadi to be sentenced to 12 years in prison plus a fine of Rp1 billion, a subsidiary of 6 months in prison, while his son-in-law, Rezky Herbiyono, was charged with 11 years in prison plus a fine of Rp1 billion, a subsidiary of 6 months in prison.