Proven Receiving Supa, Former BPK Member Rizal Djalil Sentenced To 4 Years In Prison

The verdict hearing of the former BPK member Rizal Djalil / Antara

JAKARTA - Former member of the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK), Rizal Djalil, was sentenced to 4 years in prison plus a fine of Rp. 250 million, subsidiary to 3 months in prison, because he was proven to have received a bribe of 100 thousand Singapore dollars (equivalent to Rp1 billion) from a businessman.

The bribe came from Leonardo Jusminarta Prasetyo as the owner of PT Minarta Dutahutana, because he received a project to build the Main Distribution Network for the District Capital City Drinking Water Supply System (JDU SPAM IKK), Hungary package 2 at the Directorate General of Drinking Water Supply System Development (DG). Cipta Karya Ministry of Public Works Public Housing (PUPR).

"On trial, declaring the defendant Rizal Djalil proven legally and convincingly guilty of a criminal act of corruption. Sentencing the defendant to 4 years, plus a fine of Rp. 250 million on the condition that if the fine is not paid, it is replaced by imprisonment for 3 months," said the head of the panel of judges Albertus. Usada, at the Corruption Crime Court (Tipikor) Jakarta, reported by Antara, Monday, April 26.

Rizal was proven to have committed an act based on the first indictment of Article 12 letter b of Law no. 31 of 1999 as amended by Law no. 20 of 2001 concerning the Eradication of Corruption Crime.

The verdict was lower than the demands of the General Prosecutor (JPU) of the KPK who asked that Rizal be sentenced to 6 years in prison, plus a fine of Rp. 250 million, a subsidiary of 3 months in prison.

The panel of judges also failed to pass the prosecutor's demands for the KPK asking Rizal Djalil to pay a replacement fee of Rp1 billion and be deprived of his right to hold public office for 3 years after Rizal finished serving the basic sentence.

"Regarding the request of the public prosecutor to charge replacement money, the defendant's act of accepting bribes from witness Leonardo Jusminarta Prasetyo is not an act that is detrimental to state finances," said member of the panel of judges, Teguh Santoso.

According to the judge, the 100 thousand Singapore dollars did not come from state finances or from construction work for the construction of the Hungarian Sub-district Capital City Water Supply System (JDU SPAM IKK) package 2 at the SPAM Directorate, Directorate General of Human Settlements, Ministry of PUPR for the 2017-2018 fiscal year. .

"It was personal money from Leonardo Jusminarta Prasetyo, so according to the panel of judges it was not right that the defendant should be burdened with replacement money. Therefore, the public prosecutor's demand to pay replacement money had to be rejected," said the judge.

Meanwhile, regarding the revocation of the right to be elected in public office, the panel of judges also disagreed with the KPK prosecutor.

The panel of judges revealed that based on the decision of the Constitutional Court Number 56 / PUU-XVII / 2019 dated December 11, 2019, which confirmed that regional head candidates who have completed their criminal period are required to wait 5 years to become regional head candidates.

"Sentencing a defendant is sufficient to be a valuable lesson for the defendant, so that in the future he will not repeat his actions and this is sufficient to have a deterrent effect on the defendant or other person from committing the same act, so based on the description of the above considerations, the defendant no longer needs to. sentenced to an additional criminal sentence in the form of revocation of the right to be elected to public office, "said the judge also.

In addition, the panel of judges also ordered to open 7 accounts in the name of Dipo Nurhadi Ilham who is Rizal Djalil's son.

In this case, Rizal Djalil got to know Leonardo who was a businessman at an official event in Bali in 2016, when he was introduced by Rizal's former brother-in-law named Febi Festia.

Two weeks later, Leonardo was escorted by Febi to visit Rizal's house, and Leonardo introduced himself as an Australian graduate, wanting to work on projects at the PUPR Ministry through the company PT Minarta Dutahutama.

In October 2016, Rizal then summoned the Director of Drinking Water Supply System Development (PSPAM Director) of the Ministry of PUPR Mochammad Natsir, and conveyed that there were findings from the inspection of the construction of a temporary evacuation site in Banten Province. However, Natsir said the project was not in the PSPAM Directorate.

Rizal also said that his staff would contact Natsir. Then Leonardo and Febi came to Natsir's office and introduced themselves as the person Rizal meant.

Natsir then conveyed a message to the Head of the Strategic SPAM Work Unit (Kasatker) Tampang Bandaso that Rizal was interested in a project in the PSPAM Directorate through a contractor named Leonardo Jusminarta Prasetyo.

PT Minarta was then declared the winner of the Hungarian project auction 2 for the 2017-2018 fiscal year whose construction locations are in the Java Island region covering Banten, West Java, DI Yogyakarta and East Java with a total value of IDR 75,835 billion.

In March 2018, Leonardo asked a PT Minarta employee named Yudi Yordan to deliver money to Febi Festia's house in the amount of 100 thousand Singapore dollars and 20 thousand US dollars while saying "This is a 'document' deposit from Mr. Leo".

Febri Festia then received the envelope containing the money and exchanged the 100 thousand Singapore dollars into rupiah currency amounting to Rp1 billion. Febi then handed the money to Rizal's son Dipo Nurhadi Ilham on March 21, 2018, at Transmart Cilandak while saying "this is for my father", while the 20 thousand US dollars from Leonardo was used for Febi Festia's personal needs.

Regarding the decision, the KPK prosecutor and Rizal Djalil expressed their thoughts for 7 days.