There Is A Story Of A Young Wife In The Social Assistance Bribery Case

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JAKARTA - The lawyer for former Social Minister Juliari Batubara, Maqdir Ismail, said he would investigate the flow of bribes charged to his client from two former Social Affairs Ministry officials, Matheus Joko Santoso and Adi Wahyono.

Seba, Maqdir smelled that there was an attempt by parties to deliberately throw out the error and of course it was directed at his client. Like the matter of profiteering. Where so far there is no testimony that mentions the bribe money amounting to Rp32.48 billion that flowed to JBP.

Maqdir smelled that there was an attempt by parties to deliberately throw out the error and of course it was directed at his client. Like the matter of profiteering.

"If it is true that MJS and AW deliberately used the name of JPB to ask for money, then their statement in the BAP deliberately stated that the money they received was for JPB's interests. But the testimony of the witness was disobedient," said Maqdir at the Jakarta Corruption Court, Monday, May 31.

Maqdir saw that the statements of the two former Ministry of Social Affairs officials were considered far-fetched. He said the second statement could be just to drag Juliari.

"The information they gave is the testimony of evil witnesses, because what they conveyed was a form of their efforts to involve other people, because then they hoped to get leniency," said Maqdir.

According to Maqdir, if there is a statement that there is a request for a fee as a direction from Juliari Batubara, it can be ascertained that with that statement he wishes to delegate responsibility for accepting bribes to his superiors.

"Especially for MJS, in my opinion, not someone who deserves to be trusted, because he has greedily used his loot which is said to be for the benefit of JPB, has been used to have fun with Daning Saraswati, who is said by HVS according to MJS's confession as his young wife, "said Maqdir.

Not only that, Maqdir said, MJS has also used the fee money withdrawn from vendors for Daning Saraswati's capital interest of Rp 3 billion.

"The money was used to buy a house with Daning, to buy 2 cars for Daning and 1 unit for himself," said Maqdir.

"The evil nature of MJS was increasingly seen when he transferred all the money he asked for from the vendor to his house with Daning Saraswati at the Yara E5-7 Jakarta Gardenia City Cakung Complex. Of course there was money that he deliberately brought to Bandung to his old wife's house," added Maqdir .

Thus, Maqdir emphasized that this fact cannot be assumed that the money controlled by Matheus Joko Santoso will be handed over to Juliari Peter Batubara.

"This fact proves the truth that MJS deliberately took big profits from the social assistance procurement process by using the name of JPB," said Maqdir.