Juliari Coal Pays Fines, KPK Hands Over Rp500 Million To The State

DOC ANTARA/Juliari Coal

JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has deposited hundreds of millions of rupiah to the state.

This was done after former Social Minister Juliari Peter Batubara, who was convicted of a bribery case for the procurement of COVID-19 social assistance (bansos), paid a fine of IDR 500 million.

The execution of the money was carried out by Execution Prosecutor Andry Prihandono according to the decision of the Corruption Court at the Central Jakarta District Court Number: 29/Pid.Sus-TPK/2021/PN.JKT.PST dated August 23, 2021.

"The prosecutor has implemented the Corruption Court's decision at the Central Jakarta District Court by depositing a fine of Rp 500 million into the state treasury from the convict Juliari P Batubara," Acting KPK Spokesperson for Enforcement Affairs Ali Fikri told reporters, Friday, September 24.

As for the punishment in the form of replacement money, the executor prosecutor will later collect it so that Juliari can pay it immediately.

"Regarding the replacement money sentence imposed on the convict, the execution prosecutor will also immediately collect the replacement money payment," said Ali.

The replacement money that the former PDI-P politician had to pay was Rp. 14.5 billion. He was only given one month since the corruption case that ensnared him was declared legally binding.

If Juliari is unable to pay, then his property will be confiscated and if the confiscation is not sufficient, the replacement payment will be replaced with a prison sentence of two years.

As previously reported, the Jakarta Corruption Court has sentenced Juliari to 12 years in prison and a fine of Rp. 500 million for being found guilty in the COVID-19 bribery case for social assistance (bansos). He was also asked to pay a replacement money of Rp. 14.59 billion and was banned from entering politics after being free for four years.

The former Minister of Social Affairs was sentenced after being proven to have received Rp32.48 billion in a bribery case for the procurement of COVID-19 social assistance. In detail, he received IDR 1.28 billion from Harry van Sidabukke, IDR 1.95 billion from Ardian Iskandar M, and IDR 29.25 billion from several other COVID-19 social assistance vendors.

For his actions, Juliari was proven to have violated Article 12 letter a or Article 11 of the Republic of Indonesia Law Number 31 of 1999 as amended by Law Number 20 of 2001 concerning the Eradication of Corruption Juncto Article 55 paragraph (1) 1 of the Criminal Code, Juncto Article 64 paragraph (1) of the Criminal Code.