Lower Than The Demands, Former ACT President Was Sentenced To 3.5 Years In Prison

The atmosphere of the trial for reading the verdict against the defendant of embezzlement of aid funds for the victim of the Lion Air plane crash in 2018/ANTARA

JAKARTA - Former President of the Rapid Response Action Foundation (ACT) Ahyudin was sentenced to three years and six months for alleged embezzlement of Boeing Community Investment Fund (BCIF) funds for the families of victims of the Lion Air JT 610 accident. The sanction is lower than the demands of the public prosecutor (JPU). "The trial sentenced the defendant to three years and six months in prison," said Chief Judge Hariyadi during a trial at the South Jakarta District Court, Tuesday, January 24. In that decision, there were several burdensome and mitigating considerations. For burdensome matters, Ahyudin is considered to have disturbed the wider community because he has abused BCIF funds. "The defendant's actions misused social assistance funds for Boeing beneficiaries," he said. As for mitigating matters, Ahyudin frankly and regretted his actions during the trial process. In addition, he is also considered to have family responsibilities. "The defendant has never been convicted," said Judge Hariyadi. In that decision, Ahyudin was deemed legally and convincingly to have violated Article 374 of the Criminal Code in conjunction with Article 55 paragraph (1) of the 1st Criminal Code. Meanwhile, in this case the public prosecutor (JPU) charged Ahyudin with four years in prison. Ahyudin was charged with misappropriating a donation fund of Rp. 117.98 billion from Boeing. The money is said to have not been used properly, namely the Santuan for the heirs of the victims of the Lion Air JT 610 plane crash. Originally, Boeing gave a donation fund for 189 victims of Lion Air JT 610 amounting to 25 million US dollars or Rp 138 billion. Thus, each heir should have received 144,320 US dollars or Rp. 2 billion. Thus, ACT contacted the victims' families to approve the management of the santuan funds to be held by him. In fact, the lure of the funds will be used for the construction of social facilities. Based on the independent accounting firm's report on the implementation of jointly agreed procedures regarding the receipt and management of BOEING's BCIF funds from 2018 to 2021, it was revealed that only a small amount of funds were used. "From the report, only Rp. 20,563,857,503 of the amount of money amounted to Rp. 138,546,388,500 of BCIF funds received by the Rapid Response Foundation (ACT) from Boeing which was actually used for the implementation of Boeing activities,” said the prosecutor. While the rest is used for the operation of the ACT Foundation. In fact, some are used for the personal interests of the defendants. "Among other things, the payment of salaries and THR of employees flows to other ACT foundations, down to the defendant's personal funds," said the prosecutor.