The Case Of Ronald Tannur 'Entrance' Of Basmi Corruption At The Supreme Court

The East Java High Prosecutor's Office (Kejati Jatim) Mia Amiati when giving a statement after the arrest of the convict Gregorius Ronald Tannur in Surabaya, Sunday (27/10/2024). ANTARA/HO-Kejati East Java).

The Attorney General's Office (AGO) has uncovered the case of alleged bribery and gratification behind the acquittal of defendant Gregorius Ronald Tannur. From this case, it is possible that other corruption cases will be revealed.

The possibility refers to the flow or flow of money for the suspect Lisa Rachmat. Where, leading to the Supreme Court (MA).

The Director of Investigation at the Deputy Attorney General for Special Crimes (Jampidsus) at the AGO, Abdul Qohar, said that the suspect Lisa Rachmat was a lawyer for the defendant Ronald Tannur.

The suspect is suspected of lobbying three judges at the Surabaya District Court, namely Erintuah Damanik, Mangapul, and Heru Hanindy, to give acquittal to his client. Of course, in exchange for some money.

Not only that, the suspect Lisa Rachmat is also known to have an agreement with the suspect Zarof Ricar.

Zarof Ricar is known to be a former Makamah Agung official. Before retiring around 2022, his last position was the Head of Balitbang Diklat Kumdil.

The form of consensus between the two is planning to bribe the Supreme Court judge in the amount of Rp. 5 billion. The goal is that Gregorius Ronald Tannur is still acquitted at the cassation level.

"LR conveyed to ZR that it will prepare 5 billion money or funds for Supreme Court justices," said Qohar, Friday, October 25.

At the agreement, Zarof Ricar plans to hand over Rp5 billion to the three Supreme Court justices who handle Ronald Tannur's cassation trial.

The money was also received by Zarof Ricar in October 2024. The money is in foreign currency denominations.

"The money is according to LR's records, in the notes, the LR will be allocated or given to ZR is for the Supreme Court judge on behalf of S, on behalf of A, and, on behalf of S again who handles Ronal Tannur's cassation," said Qohar.

It's just that, regarding whether the three Supreme Court justices have received the money or not, for now it cannot be ascertained.

Investigators are still investigating this matter in order to reveal the real facts. Thus, it is possible that investigators will examine the three Supreme Court justices.

"Everything involved will definitely be called to find a bright spot," he said.

Meanwhile, referring to the suspect Zarof Ricar, the AGO has the potential to uncover other corruption cases that occurred at the Supreme Court.

This is because the suspect Zarof Ricar not only 'takes care' of the Gregorius Ronald Tannur case so that he is still acquitted at the cassation level. However, there are many other cases in the Supreme Court.

"In addition to the case of conspiracy, to commit the bribe, ZR was currently the Head of the Training and Training Center, which I said earlier received gratification in the management of cases in the Supreme Court," said Qohar.

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.

Moreover, during the examination, Zarof Ricar admitted that the money had been collected from 2012 to 2022 or for 10 years.

After 2022, ZR no longer committed the crime because it had entered retirement.

"Where did this money come from? According to the information concerned, most of this was obtained from case management," he said.

When investigators asked what cases ZR had helped trace, Qohar said ZR admitted that he did not remember.

"Because he forgot so much, he forgot. Because there were a lot, yes," said Qohar.