JAKARTA - The Central Jakarta District Court (PN) replaced the member judge on behalf of Ali Muhtarom at the trial of the alleged corruption case of sugar importation that dragged the Minister of Trade (Mendag) for the 2015-2016 period Thomas Trikasih Lembong (Tom Lembong) as a defendant.
The replacement was after Ali Muhtarom was named one of the suspects in the alleged bribery and/or gratuity related to the freelance decision (ontslag) in a corruption case in the provision of crude palm oil (CPO) export facilities or crude palm oil in Jakarta, Monday morning.
"Because the member judge on behalf of Ali Muhtarom is permanently unable and unable to convene anymore, to try this case it is necessary to appoint a member judge to replace him," said Chief Judge Dennie Arsan Fatirika in a trial at the Jakarta Corruption Court at the Central Jakarta District Court, Monday.
Thus, the Chief Judge said that the Chairman of the Central Jakarta District Court had appointed Alfis Setiawan to become a member judge to replace Ali, accompanying Purwanto Abdullah.
After determining the replacement of the judge, the trial of the Tom Lembong case was continued with the agenda of examining witnesses.
In the case of alleged corruption in sugar imports at the Ministry of Trade in 2015 '2016, Tom Lembong was charged with causing state financial losses of IDR 578.1 billion, among others, for issuing an import recognition letter or approval of imports of raw crystal sugar for the 2015'2016 period to 10 companies without being based on inter-ministerial coordination meetings and without any recommendations from the Ministry of Industry.
The letter of import recognition or approval of imports of raw crystal sugar for the 2015'2016 period to the parties is allegedly given to import raw crystal sugar to be processed into white crystal sugar, even though Tom Lembong knows the company has no right to process raw crystal sugar into white crystal sugar because the company is a refined sugar company.
Tom Lembong is also said to have not appointed a state-owned company (BUMN) to control the availability and stabilization of sugar prices, but to appoint the Kartika Cooperative Identification (Inkopkar), the Main Cooperative of the Indonesian National Police (Inkoppol), the Indonesian National Police Cooperative Center (Puskopol), and the TNI/Polri Employee Welfare Cooperative Unit (SKKP).
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For his actions, Tom Lembong is threatened with a crime as regulated in Article 2 paragraph (1) or Article 3 in conjunction with Article 18 of Law Number 31 of 1999 concerning Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption as amended and supplemented by Law Number 20 of 2001 jo. Article 55 paragraph (1) 1st of the Criminal Code.
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