JAKARTA - The judge rejected the pretrial of former Minister of Religion (Menag) Yaqut Cholil Qoumas, optimistic that the truth will be revealed in the determination of the suspect by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) regarding the alleged corruption case of additional Hajj quotas for the implementation of the 2023-2024 Hajj.
"Considering that the applicant's pretrial application is rejected in its entirety," said Judge Sulistyo Muhammad Dwi Putro in a pretrial ruling hearing at the South Jakarta District Court, quoted by Antara Wednesday, March 11.
The judge judged in the exception that he rejected the exception from the defendant for all in the decision.
"In the main case, the pretrial application was rejected for all of them and the case fee was charged in the amount of zero," he said.
Previously, the KPK said that the state's losses in the alleged corruption case for additional haj quotas for the implementation of the 2023-2024 haj with the suspect, former Minister of Religion Yaqut Cholil Qoumas, reached Rp. 622 billion.
In his answer, the KPK said that the designation of Gus Yaqut as a suspect in the Hajj quota case was in accordance with legal procedures because it had met the minimum requirement of two valid evidence. In fact, more than 40 people have been questioned in accordance with the Report of Request for Information on behalf of Yaqut Cholil Qoumas.
Then, the KPK Legal Team added, the determination of the suspect Gus Yaqut has gone through a series of data, information, information and clues collection processes so that the requirement for sufficient evidence through two pieces of evidence has been met.
Previously, on August 9, 2025, the KPK announced that it had begun investigating a case of alleged corruption in determining quotas and organizing the 2023-2024 Hajj pilgrimage at the Ministry of Religion.
On August 11, 2025, the KPK announced that the initial calculation of state losses in the case reached more than Rp1 trillion and prevented three people from traveling abroad for the next six months.
Those who were prevented were Yaqut Cholil Qoumas, Ishfah Abidal Aziz alias Gus Alex, and Fuad Hasan Masyhur as the owner of the Maktour Hajj organizing bureau.
The KPK on January 9, 2026, announced that two of the three people who were prevented from becoming suspects in the alleged corruption case of the hajj quota, namely Yaqut Cholil Qoumas (YCQ), and Ishfah Abidal Aziz (IAA).
On the other hand, Yaqut filed a pretrial application for the determination of suspects to the South Jakarta District Court on February 10, 2026, and was registered with case number 19/Pid.Pra/2026/PN JKT.SEL.
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