NTT Prosecutor's Office Executes Former Head Of Kupang City National Land Agency

PIXABAY ILLUSTRATION

KUPANG - The East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) High Prosecutor's Office executed the former Head of the Kupang City National Land Agency (BPN), Thomas More, in the corruption case of land assets belonging to the Kupang City Government in front of the Sasando Hotel.

The execution was carried out after the Supreme Court accepted the cassation submitted by the Public Prosecutor of the Kupang District Attorney.

The Head of the NTT Prosecutor's Office, Yulianto, said that Thomas More's execution was carried out after the Kupang District Attorney obtained a copy of the cassation decision from the Supreme Court.

A copy of the decision has been issued by the clerk at the Supreme Court under number 261/TU/2021/2451 K/PID.SUS/2021.

Thomas More is a former Head of Kupang City National Land Agency who was entangled in a corruption case of regional assets in the form of land in front of the Sasando Hotel, Kelapa Lima Village, Kelapa Lima District, Kupang City, NTT who had been executed by the NTT Prosecutor's Office to Kupang Lapas to serve a sentence of eight years in prison.

Previously, the Corruption Court at the Class 1A Kupang District Court had acquitted the defendant, and former Kupang Mayor, Jonas Salean.

The public prosecutor then filed an appeal at the Supreme Court level. However, in the cassation decision, the Supreme Court rejected the cassation against the defendant Jonas Salean and accepted the cassation against Thomas More, who is the former Head of the Kupang City National Land Agency.

Thomas More was sentenced to 8 years in prison. He and former Kupang Mayor Jonas Salean were named as suspects in the case of transferring land assets belonging to the Kupang City Government. Now Jonas Salean has been acquitted.

Prosecutor Yulianto said the NTT Prosecutor's Office would coordinate with the Attorney General's Office regarding the acquittal of former Kupang Mayor, Jonas Salean, in the Kupang City Government asset case that dragged Thomas More as a suspect and was sentenced to eight years in prison.

"We will coordinate with the Attorney General's Office because the Supreme Court has acquitted one person in the same case, while one party has been sentenced. If the Attorney General's Office gives us space to conduct a judicial review, we will do it for the sake of fair law enforcement", said Yulianto, quoted by Antara on Friday, January 28.