Bali Prosecutor's Office: There Are No Traps In The OTT Of Ngurah Rai Immigration Officials

DENPASAR - The Bali High Prosecutor's Office (Kejati) stated that there was no setting in the hand arrest operation (OTT) of the TPI Ngurah Rai Special Class I Immigration Office related to illegal levies on the fast track at Ngurah Rai Airport, Tuban, Badung.

This was conveyed by the Head of the Legal Information Section of the Bali Prosecutor's Office, Putu Agus Eka Sabana Putra, to answer accusations by various parties that stated that the Special Crime Investigators of the Bali Attorney General's Office had trapped immigration officers as if they were carrying out extortion to be narrated as OTT.

"It is not true that there was an entanglement taken by the Bali High Prosecutor's Office to make it seem as if there was a bribery practice by immigration officers," said Eka as quoted by ANTARA, Saturday, November 18.

Eka stated that the operation carried out by the Investigation Team at Ngurah Rai Airport was part of an effort to ensure the truth that this practice actually occurred, where the action had previously been supported by intelligence data that had been collected.

Eka also straightened out the issues circulating about the lure of promising restorative justice to immigration officials to return the money received in the results of irregularities in fast track services.

In the case of alleged illegal levies on the Immigration fast track service, the Bali High Prosecutor's Office has named one suspect on behalf of Haryo Seto who serves as Head of Examination Section I of the Class I Immigration Office Special for TPI Ngurah Rai.

A number of immigration officers were also examined as witnesses and are still in the investigation stage by the Bali Attorney General's Office Pidsus investigators to shed light on the case.

"There is no resolution through restorative justice like the circulating issues," said Eka.

In determining the suspect and those whose position is as witnesses in the case, said Eka, of course based on the development of investigations and strategies to prove the case, it cannot be interpreted as restorative justice.

"If there is a refund of a sum of money by the immigration officers, this is done voluntarily because they are aware of their wrong actions and not because of coercion by the investigative team," said Eka.

Therefore, the Bali Attorney General's Office appealed to all parties not to connect the handling of this case with various issues that of course could mislead the public.

"This case is purely a law enforcement process, which we hope is in accordance with the government's program in eradicating the practice of the port mafia and airports will be able to encourage the improvement of the system and governance of public services at our International Airport as Indonesia's leading storefront in the eyes of the international community," he said.