Suara.com – Firli Bahuri’s pretrial decision hearing will be held at the South Newsdelivers.com District Court on Tuesday (19/12/2023).
The trial will decide on the status of the inactive Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) suspect in the extortion case of former Minister of Agriculture (Mentan) Syahrul Yasin Limpo alias SYL.
According to data from the SIPP of the South Newsdelivers.com District Court, the trial will be held at 15.00 WIB.
How did it start?
Firli was named a suspect by Polda Metro Jaya on November 22 2023.
The suspect’s determination was based on a number of pieces of evidence, including documents exchanging foreign currency in SGD and USD denominations at several money changer outlets worth IDR 7,468,711,500 billion.
Photos circulating show KPK Chairman Firli Bahuri and Minister of Agriculture (Mentan) Syahrul Yasin Limpo at a badminton gym in the Mangga Besar area, Central Newsdelivers.com. (Ist)
After being named a suspect, Firli fought back by filing a pretrial lawsuit with the South Newsdelivers.com District Court to invalidate his legal status.
Firli registered the lawsuit on Friday 24 November 2023, with case number 129/Pid.Pra/2023/PN.JKT.SEL.
A series of pretrial hearings have been held since Monday (11/12/2023).
Before reaching the decision, the final agenda for the trial is the submission of conclusions on Monday (18/12/2023).
I’m sure you’re not a suspect
Ahead of the verdict hearing, Firli’s party was very confident that he would not be a suspect in the SYL extortion case.
“We are confident that the judge who examines and adjudicates our request can grant our request, so that our request regarding justice for Mr. Firli can be realized,” said Firli’s attorney, Ian Iskandar.
Their confidence is based on an assessment of the invalidity of the research process.
“Then the investigation was also illegal. We conveyed those two points in our conclusion material which we conveyed earlier,” he explained.
Strong evidence
The feeling of optimism is not only felt by the Firli camp.
Polda Metro Jaya as the respondent also believes that they will win this pre-trial lawsuit.
Kabidkum Polda Metro Jaya Kombes Putu Putera Sadana. (Suara.com/Yasir)
Head of the Legal Division or Kabidkum Polda Metro Jaya Kombes Putu Putera Sadana admitted that he was optimistic because he referred to the legal facts that had been presented in the trial. One of them is based on four pieces of evidence which became the basis for investigators to determine Firli as a suspect.
“Yes (optimistic about winning), we are praying. We have made efforts,” said Putu at Polda Metro Jaya, Newsdelivers.com, Monday (18/12/2023).
On the other hand, Putu hopes that the single judge will also be able to make decisions objectively referring to the legal facts.
“We hope that the South Newsdelivers.com District Court will provide a more objective decision because the legal facts are clearly visible and there are fact witnesses. We have prepared more or less two fact witnesses and 3 experts,” he said.
Firli Bahuri’s legal trap
If he becomes a suspect, Firli will be charged under a number of articles, namely Article 12e, Article 12b, Article 11 of Law Number 31 of 1999 Law Number 31 of 1999 as amended in Law Number 20 of 2001 concerning amendments to Law Number 39 of 1999 concerning the Eradication of Corruption Crimes in conjunction with Article 65 of the Criminal Code.
The threat of punishment under these articles is in the form of life imprisonment or imprisonment for a minimum of four years and a maximum of 20 years.
Apart from that, there is also a fine of at least IDR 200 million and a maximum of IDR 1 billion.