Former North Jakarta District Court Registrar Rohadi Sentenced To 3.5 Years In Prison

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JAKARTA - The former clerk of the North Jakarta District Court, Rohadi, was sentenced to 3.5 years in prison plus a fine of Rp. 300 million, subsidiary to 4 months in prison for being proven to have accepted bribes, gratuities, and money laundering.

"Declaring that the defendant Rohadi has been legally and convincingly proven guilty of committing several criminal acts of corruption as the first, second, third subsidiary charges, and committing money laundering as the fourth indictment," said the panel of judges led by Albertus Usada at the Corruption Court (Tipikor). ) Jakarta, quoted by Antara, Wednesday, July 14.

The verdict is lower than the demands of the KPK public prosecutor (JPU) who requested that Rohadi be sentenced to 5 years in prison plus a fine of IDR 300 million, subsidiary to 6 months in prison.

In the verdict, the judge stated aggravating things, namely that the defendant's actions did not support the government's program to eradicate corruption.

"The mitigating thing is that the defendant was cooperative in carrying out the judicial process, the defendant was frank in giving testimony at the trial, the defendant pleaded guilty, the defendant became the backbone of the family," said Judge Albertus.

In this case, the panel of judges consisting of Albertus Usada, Susanti Arsi Wibawani, and Ali Mukhatarom stated that Rohadi was proven guilty in four charges.

First, Rohadi was proven to have accepted bribes from members of the West Papua DPRD for the 2009–2014 period, Robert Melianus Nauw and Jimmy Demianus Ijie through Sudiwardono, in connection with the management of corruption cases involving Robert Melianus Nauw and Jimmy Demianus Ijie so that they could be released on an appeal at the Supreme Court.

Rohadi was proven as the first subsidiary indictment of Article 11 of Law Number 31 of 1999 concerning the Eradication of Corruption Crimes as amended by Law no. 20 of 2001 in conjunction with Article 55 Paragraph (1) of the 1st Criminal Code.

Second, Rohadi was proven to have accepted bribes in his position as a substitute clerk from Jeffri Darmawan through Rudi Indawan's intermediary amounting to Rp110 million; from Yanto Pranoto through the intermediary of Rudi Indawan in the amount of Rp.235 million; from Ali Darmadi in the amount of IDR 1.608 billion and from Sareh Wiyono in the amount of IDR 1.5 billion related to case management.

In this case, Rohadi was also proven as the second indictment of Article 11 of Law no. 31/1999 as amended by Law no. 20/2001 jo. Article 55 Paragraph (1) 1st of the Criminal Code.

Rohadi was also proven to have received a gratuity of Rp11,518,850,000.00 from a number of parties related to his position as a substitute clerk.

He was proven to have violated Article 12B of Law no. 31/1999 as amended by Law no. 20/2001 jo. Article 55 Paragraph (1) of the 1st Criminal Code jo. Article 65 Paragraph (1) of the Criminal Code.

Fourth, Rohadi was proven to have committed money laundering, namely exchanging from foreign currency to rupiah in a total of IDR 19.408 billion, placing (cash deposit) in his own account in 2014-2015 amounting to IDR 465.3 million, transferring to the account of his family members, spend or pay for the purchase of land and buildings (houses) in total of Rp. 13,010,976,000.00.

Furthermore, Rohadi was proven to have spent or paid for the purchase of a motor vehicle (car) in total amounting to Rp7,714,121,000 and other actions in the form of making fictitious receipts to appear as if he received investment capital (loans of money) from other parties with the aim of hiding or disguising the origin. assets that are the result of criminal acts of corruption.

Rohadi was also proven to have committed money laundering based on Article 3 of Law Number 8 of 2010 concerning the Prevention and Eradication of the Crime of Money Laundering jo. Article 65 Paragraph (1) of the Criminal Code.

Regarding the verdict, the KPK prosecutor stated that he had thought about it for 7 days, while Rohadi said he had accepted the verdict.