Rizieq Shihab Criticizes Prosecutors On Meeting With BG, Tito Karnavian And Wiranto: Short-Sighted And Naive

Rizieq Shihab (Photo: Rizky/VOI)

JAKARTA - The defendant in the case of the UMMI hospital swab test results, Rizieq Shihab, said that the Public Prosecutor's team at the Attorney General's Office was very short-sighted and naive.

The statement was made in response to the prosecutor's reply who said he was looking for a stage because he had mentioned several names of state officials.

"The prosecutor here is very short-sighted and naive in reading the issue, because it is full of prejudice," said Rizieq during the trial at the East Jakarta District Court, Thursday, June 17.

In fact, Rizieq said, in the pledoi delivered at the previous trial, there was not a single sentence that insulted the former Coordinating Minister for Politics, Law and Security Wiranto, Head of the National Intelligence Service (BIN) Budi Gunawan, and former National Police Chief Tito Karnavian.

Thus, the prosecutor's accusation that he was only looking for a stage is not correct. Moreover, Rizieq claimed that it really happened.

"In fact, in the Pledoi pages 20-21 I really commend the attitude of Wiranto and BG and Tito who have big hearts so they want to open the Doors of Dialogue for Reconciliation for the Unity of the Republic of Indonesia," said Rizieq

"I also really praise that the results of the agreement we have reached are very good, and I regret that the already very good agreement ended up falling apart just because of the illegal operations of dark intelligent," continued Rizieq.

Previously reported, the prosecutor mentioned that Rizieq Shihab's statement that alluded to his meeting with the Head of the State Intelligence Agency (BIN) Budi Gunawan and the former National Police Chief General (Ret.) Tito Karnavian to communicating with the former Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal, and Security Affairs Wiranto had nothing to do with the case at trial. In fact, Rizieq is said to be just looking for a stage.

"In the pleadings, the defendant told stories that had nothing to do with legal facts, by mentioning several names, namely Budi Gunawan, former Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Wiranto, Kyai Maruf Amin who is now the vice president of the Republic of Indonesia or General Tito Karnavian, TNI special forces who have nothing to do with the facts of the trial with a quo case," said the Prosecutor in the trial at the East Jakarta District Court, Monday, June 14

In addition, the prosecutor thought the stories were just for attention. Thus, it does not deserve special attention.

In fact, the story that describes Rizieq's condition during his flight in Saudi Arabia is only seen as a way to blame other parties for his case.

"The prosecutor considers that there is no relevance. The stories of the defendants seem to be looking for a stage to blame other parties and unilaterally justify what the defendants did," said the prosecutor.