JAKARTA - The Attorney General's Office (AGO) has named three suspects in the case of obstruction to investigation and prosecution (obstruction of justice). The three of them came from different backgrounds: an advocate, lecturer, and journalist.
Director of Investigation at the Deputy Attorney General for Special Crimes (Jampidsus) at the Attorney General's Office Abdul Qohar said that the three suspects were MS (Marcella Santoso) as advocate, JS (Junaedi Saibih) as lecturer, and TB (Tian Bahtiar) as Director of JAKTV News.
"There is an evil consensus made to prevent, obstruct, or thwart directly or indirectly," he said at the Attorney General's Office Building, Jakarta, Tuesday, April 22 in the morning.
The obstruction, he said, was carried out in a series of handling cases of corruption in the tin commodity trading system in the mining business permit (IUP) area of PT Timah Tbk. 2015 '2022, corruption in sugar importation activities on behalf of the suspect Tom Lembong, and corruption cases in the provision of export facilities for crude palm oil (CPO).
Qohar said that the disclosure of this case began with the development of a case of alleged bribery in a freelance decision in the case of granting CPO export facilities at the Central Jakarta District Court.
From the development, it is known that the suspects MS and JS ordered the suspect TB to make negative news that cornered the Jampidsus investigators at the Attorney General's Office in exchange for a fee of Rp478,500,000.
The money, said Qohar, went into the suspect TB's personal pocket.
"The suspect TB then published it on social media, online media, and JAKTV News so that the Prosecutor's Office was considered negative," he said.
In addition to news, the suspect TB also financed demonstrations and seminars, podcasts, and talk shows that cornered the Prosecutor's Office.
The three suspects were also subject to Article 21 of Law (UU) Number 31 of 1999 concerning the Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption as amended by Law Number 20 of 2001 concerning the Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption in conjunction with Article 55 paragraph (1) 1st of the Criminal Code.
For the next stage, the suspects JS and MS were detained at the Salemba Rutan, the Attorney General's Office for the next 20 days.
Meanwhile, the suspect MS was not detained because he had already been detained as a suspect in the alleged bribery case, a corruption case in the CPO export facility at the Central Jakarta District Court.
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