JAKARTA - The legal team for Ishfah Abidal Aziz alias Gus Alex said that the contents of the indictment read by the public prosecutor from the KPK did not explain at all how Gus Alex and former Minister of Religion Yaqut Cholil Qoumas (Gus Yaqut) arranged and asked for fees for the acceleration of special pilgrimage departures.
"There is not a single chain of stories in the indictment read by the KPK prosecutor that explains how, where, Gus Alex and Gus Yaqut asked, forced let alone designed certain circumstances to get something from the PIHK who had used the additional Hajj quota," said Gus Alex's lawyer, Ali Yusuf, Wednesday, August 12.
Ali revealed that if he read the series of stories in the Gus Alex Examination Report (BAP) and in the indictment, his client was passive regarding the alleged request for an acceleration fee. According to Ali, it was the private sector that was active in providing acceleration fees. In addition, from the indictment it is also clear that there is no order from Gus Yaqut to Gus Alex to collect acceleration fees.
"However, in the indictment it seems as if the story was made that the two (GA and GY) were related to each other by producing numbers received from the absorption of the haj quota," he explained.
Ali criticized the indictment, which actually included something and omitted something that was told in the BAP of his client. One of them is to include USD5,233,800 as explained on page 77 paragraph three.
"The indictment on page 77 regarding enriching oneself by receiving millions of dollars from PIHK was never asked in the BAP of Gus Alex and the defendants Asrul Azis Taba and Ismail Adam," he said.
What made Ali wonder was that there were actually several names of members of the DPR Commission VIII included in the minutes of the examination (BAP), but it turned out that they were not included in the indictment.
Ali ensured that the distribution of the additional 2024 Hajj quota with a 50:50 formation did not violate the law. Because the policy is based on the provisions of the Hajj and Umrah regulations and the principles of maqasid syariah. In addition, the distribution of the additional 50:50 Hajj quota has also been recommended by the Saudi authorities.
Gus Yaqut's lawyer, Dodi S Abdulkadir, also assessed that the indictment read by the JPU did not fully describe the series of events in the implementation of the hajj. There are a number of facts that have been omitted, so that the indictment seems to be forced to link his client with the alleged criminal act.
Dodi also questioned the prosecutor's accusation that Gus Yaqut received money amounting to USD271,000. Because there is no detailed explanation about the origin of the money, the way it was handed over, nor the time and place of receipt.
"The mention of the receipt of USD271 thousand seems to be only to connect so that Gus Yaqut has a connection with the practice of accelerating the departure of the hajj," he said.
Dodi assessed that the indictment was based only on assumptions, not material evidence. He also emphasized that in the 2024 incident, the prosecutor did not elaborate on the flow of funds to Gus Yaqut. "In 2024, there is clearly not a single penny," he said.
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