DENPASAR - The Bali High Prosecutor's Office revealed a number of preliminary evidences of alleged corruption in institutional development donations involving the Chancellor of Udayana University Prof. I Nyoman Gde Antara in a pretrial hearing at the Denpasar District Court, Bali.
At the pretrial hearing with the agenda of proving letters, witness statements and experts from the defendant of the Bali High Prosecutor's Office, witness Andreanto answered questions from the attorney for the Chancellor of Udayana University, Prof. I Gde Nyoman Antara, regarding evidence of alleged corruption in SPI funds.
In his statement, Andranto revealed a number of evidences of letters and documents related to the determination of the suspect Prof. Antara, as well as other evidence in the form of witness statements and evidence of clues.
From other evidence, he said, in the form of information spoken and sent was received or stored through optical tools or similar to that and documents of any data recording or information that can be seen, read, or heard, issued or without the help of facilities, both contained on physical paper and recorded electronically and so on.
However, he continued, not all evidence could be presented at the trial because not all evidence had to be presented at the pretrial hearing.
Therefore, according to witness Andreanto, if the applicant wants to see all the evidence related to the alleged corruption of institutional development donations by the suspect Rector of Unud Prof. Antara, other evidence will be presented by the prosecutor in the trial later after the pretrial.
"I as the investigator yesterday was also asked for some evidence. Frankly, not all of this evidence we maximize is here because this is also like our bullet and this is the pretrial realm," he told the Udayana University's legal team before Tunggal Judge Agus Akhyudi.
"We are sufficient to prove that we have provided evidence. If all the evidence is presented here, I apologize, I do not not believe in this honorable institution, instead I respect this pretrial institution," he continued.
If the applicant is not satisfied with the sufficient preliminary evidence, according to him, it is appropriate for the case to be continued in court so that all available evidence is disclosed in the presence of three judges.
The witness of the respondent confirmed the investigation plan against the suspect Prof. Antara will continue as long as investigators have a strong basis, namely sufficient preliminary evidence.
On this occasion, witness Andreanto also emphasized that the results of the audit issued by the Bali High Prosecutor's Office were legally valid. auditors auditing state losses and state financial losses have an official license under the supervision of BPKP.
However, the witness did not answer with certainty the amount of state losses from the results of the internal audit of the Bali High Prosecutor's Office. This also sparked a long discussion with the applicant's legal team Prof. Gde Antara. The applicant wants to know for sure the amount of state losses as stated by the Bali Attorney General's Office investigators during the determination of Prof. Antara as a suspect.
After a while of arguing with each other, Judge Agus Akhyudi also gave the witness the opportunity to continue the testimony of the respondent at the Bali Attorney General's Office.
Witness Andreanto also explained the flow of determination of the Chancellor of Udayana University Prof. Antara as a suspect in the alleged corruption of donations from the development of new student admission institutions for the selection of independent pathways for the 2018-2020 academic year.
According to him, the stages of determining the suspect have gone through an investigation and investigation which began with the issuance of an investigation warrant Number: Print-988/N.1/Fd.1/09/2022 dated September 23, 2022.
During the investigation, investigators have asked for statements from five witnesses.
From the results of the investigation by the investigative team, investigators have found an incident suspected of being a criminal act so that it is appropriate to be upgraded to the investigation stage as the results of the exposure on October 18, 2022.
Furthermore, as a follow-up to the results of the investigation, a warrant for investigation was issued on October 24, 2022 and has examined 16 witnesses and one expert, as well as obtained valid evidence.
Based on the results of the investigation carried out by the investigative team, exposure was carried out on January 11, 2023, February 7, 2023, March 3, 2023, and March 7, 2023, one of which conclusion was that there was sufficient evidence to determine the applicant as a suspect.
Investigators concluded that based on the investigation and investigation, preliminary evidence had been revealed and obtained, it should be suspected that the applicant Prof. Dr. Ir. I Nyoman Gde Antara, M.Eng. as the perpetrator of a criminal act of corruption violated Article 2 paragraph (1) Article 3, Article 12 letter ejuncto Article 18 of Law Number 31 of 1999 concerning Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption which has been amended by Law no. 20 of 2001 jo. Article 55 paragraph (1) of the 1st Criminal Code.
After hearing the testimony of witnesses from the defendant in the Bali High Prosecutor's Office, the trial was continued with the testimony of the expert Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Indonesian Christian Hendri Jayadi. Hendri Jayadi also explained his capacity as an expert regarding the determination of a suspect in a criminal case.
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