JAKARTA - A video has circulated showing a prosecutor who was part of Rizieq Shihab's trial being arrested. The arrest was called because the prosecutor accepted a bribe.
"The admission of a prosecutor who admitted to accepting bribes in the case of Habib Rizieq's trial was revealed. Inaillahi is increasingly shattered by the face of Indonesian law," said the man narrating the image on the video in the early minutes.
In the video, it is also stated that the prosecutor with the initials AF was arrested at his boarding house. In fact, in the arrest, evidence was found in the form of cash in the denominations of IDR 50,000 and IDR 100,000, totaling IDR 1.5 billion.
Responding to the circulating video, the Attorney General's Office (AGO) firmly denied it. He said that the arrest had nothing to do with the trial process of Rizieq Shihab.
"That the video of the arrest of the prosecutor AF has absolutely nothing to do with and to do with the trial process of Muhammad Rizieq Shihab at the East Jakarta District Court which is currently being carried out," said the Head of the Legal Information Center (Kapuspenkum) of the Attorney General's Office, Leonard Eben Ezer Simanjuntak.
Leonard said that the arrest of the prosecutor did indeed take place. However, it is emphasized that the arrest was related to the handling of a criminal act of corruption in the sale of village treasury lands in Kali Mok Village, Kalianget District, Sumenep, East Java in November 2016.
"That the official who explained the arrest of the prosecutor AF in the video is Mr. Yulianto, SH. MM, who currently serves as the Head of the East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) High Prosecutor's Office, "he said.
With this information, Leonard asked the public not to easily believe this hoax news and spread it. Because, those who distribute this video can be subject to the ITE Law with the threat of 6 years in prison and a fine of Rp1 billion.
"We also ask the public not to make news or videos or information that is untrue and disseminate it to the public through existing social media networks," he said.
On a different occasion, the Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs (Menko Polhukam) Mahfud MD also emphasized that the information regarding the prosecutor who accepted bribes in the Rizieq Shihab case was hoax.
Mahfud said the video was a hoax. He also said that the arrest of the prosecutor with the initials AF took place six years ago in Sumenep, Madura, East Java.
"This video is viral, the public is angry that prosecutors have accepted bribes in kss which have been enlivened lately. But it turns out that this is a hoax: Attorney Yulianto's arrest of AF prosecutor took place 6 years ago in Sumenep. Not in Jkt and not in the current case, ”said Mahfud as quoted from his Twitter account @mohmahfudmd, Sunday, March 21.
He then linked this video with the Information and Electronic Transactions Law (UU ITE) which is now being debated. Mahfud said it was this hoax in the form of a video that caused the regulation to be made.
Meanwhile, regarding this hoax video, Mahfud asked the perpetrators who spread it and made it viral to be investigated.
"Deliberately turning a video like this is certainly not an offense in a complaint, it still has to be investigated," he said.
This video is viral, the public is angry that prosecutors have accepted bribes in kss which have been enlivened lately. But it turns out that this is a hoax: Attorney Yulianto's arrest of AF prosecutor took place 6 years ago in Sumenep. Not in Jkt and not in the current kss. For kss like this, for example, the ITE Law was drafted. pic.twitter.com/3tAxxRHEK6
- Mahfud MD (@mohmahfudmd) March 21, 2021
Furthermore, with regard to the ITE Law, the government will also continue to review and open up the possibility to revise the ITE Law to eliminate the rubber articles contained in it. This was done so that the public could distinguish between complaint offenses and general offenses.
"But we will still examine the possibility of revising the ITE Law to eliminate the potential for the rubber article and distinguish the complaint offense and general offense in it," he concluded.
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