Not Only Cassation Of Ronald Tannur, The AGO Calls Zarof Ricar 'Decrease' Other Cases In The Supreme Court

Director Of Investigation AGO Abdul Qohar/PHOTO: Puspenkum AGO

The Attorney General's Office (AGO) said that the suspect Zarof Ricar did not only 'take care' of the Gregorius Ronald Tannur case so that he would still be acquitted at the cassation level. However, there are many other cases at the Supreme Court (MA).

Zarof Ricar became a case broker when he was the Head of the Supreme Court's Legal Research and Development and Training Agency.

"In addition to the case of conspiracy, to commit the bribe, ZR was while serving as Head of the Education and Training Center, which I said earlier, receiving gratuities for handling cases in the Supreme Court," Director of Investigation at the Junior Attorney General for Special Crimes (Jampis) at the AGO, Abdul Qohar, told reporters, Friday, October 25.

However, it was not explained in detail about how many cases the suspect Zarof Ricar had handled.

It was only mentioned that the gratification received by the suspect ranged from rupiah to foreign currency.

The value of the gratuities received is IDR 1 trillion. The nominal is based on a number of evidences confiscated from the results of the search.

"As we can see in front of this, all of which are converted into rupiah in the amount of Rp920,912,303,714 and 51 kilograms of gold bullion," said Qohar.

Zarof Ricar was arrested by AGO investigators in Bali on Thursday, October 24, 2024. The arrest was made because he was involved in a series of bribery cases for Ronald Tannur's acquittal.

The suspect Zarof Ricar has an evil consensus with Lisa Rahmat as Ronald Tannur's lawyer to bribe three Supreme Court justices worth IDR 5 billion.

In this case, Zarof Ricar was charged with Article 5 paragraph 1 in conjunction with Article 15 in conjunction with Article 18 of Law Number 31 of 1999 as amended by Law Number 20 of 2021 concerning the eradication of criminal acts of corruption.

Then, Article 12B in conjunction with Article 18 of Law 1999 concerning the eradication of criminal acts of corruption as amended by Law number 20 of 2001.