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Thu, 08/21/2008 - 16:22
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PROSECUTION DEMANDS 15 YEARS FOR AGO PROSECUTOR GUNAWAN
Jakarta, Aug 21 (ANTARA) - The prosecution in the court trial of Attorney General's Office (AGO) prosecutor Urip Tri Gunawan on charges of accepting US$660,000 and Rp1 billion in bribes from a businesswoman and a lawyer demanded a 15-year jail sentence for the defendant in a court session here Thursday.
The public prosecutors' team at the court session said Gunawan's act was corruption as defined in Article 12, section b of Law No 31/1999 as amended in Law No 20/2001 on eradication of corruption.
The team led by Sarjono Turin also demanded that Gunawan pay a fine of Rp250 million or spend an additional six months in jail.
Earlier, Gunawan had faced a maximum jail sentence of 20 years for allegedly accepting US$660,000 in cash from businesswoman Artalyta Suryani after his office had dropped an investigation into a BLBI (Bank Indonesia Liquidity Assistance) bad debt case involving business tycoon Sjamsul Nursalim.
Gunawan's case turned out to be a major scandal.
Artalyta Suryani, an associate of Sjamsul Nursalim, who had bribed Gunawan was earlier sentenced to five years imprisonment for the act.
Suryani and Gunawan were arrested by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) in March, 2008, just two days after the Attorney General's Office (AGO) dropped the investigation into Nursalim's alleged embezzlement of US$3 billion in BLBI or central bank bailout funds during the 1997-98 financial crisis.
Tape recordings of Suryani's conversations with prosecutors played in court have embarrassed Jakarta and provided fodder for anti-corruption campaigners who converted them into mobile phone ring tones.
Nursalim who lives in Singapore and has refused to be questioned by KPK, has denied through family members that the money for the bribe to Gunawan came from him.
When announcing Artalyta's sentence, Judge Mansurdin Chaniago said the case had harmed law enforcement in Indonesia.
Gunawan was being tried separately. He and Artalyta claimed the money she gave him was a loan.
Artalyta's conviction came as two cabinet ministers were named in a separate corruption case. Paskah Suzetta, national development planning minister, and Malam Sambat Ka'ban, forestry minister, had accepted bribes from Bank Indonensia or central bank officials between 1999 and 2004, according to testimony by Hamka Yandhu, a legislator being tried in the illegal Bank Indonesia funds transfer case.
The public prosecutors' team at the court session said Gunawan's act was corruption as defined in Article 12, section b of Law No 31/1999 as amended in Law No 20/2001 on eradication of corruption.
The team led by Sarjono Turin also demanded that Gunawan pay a fine of Rp250 million or spend an additional six months in jail.
Earlier, Gunawan had faced a maximum jail sentence of 20 years for allegedly accepting US$660,000 in cash from businesswoman Artalyta Suryani after his office had dropped an investigation into a BLBI (Bank Indonesia Liquidity Assistance) bad debt case involving business tycoon Sjamsul Nursalim.
Gunawan's case turned out to be a major scandal.
Artalyta Suryani, an associate of Sjamsul Nursalim, who had bribed Gunawan was earlier sentenced to five years imprisonment for the act.
Suryani and Gunawan were arrested by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) in March, 2008, just two days after the Attorney General's Office (AGO) dropped the investigation into Nursalim's alleged embezzlement of US$3 billion in BLBI or central bank bailout funds during the 1997-98 financial crisis.
Tape recordings of Suryani's conversations with prosecutors played in court have embarrassed Jakarta and provided fodder for anti-corruption campaigners who converted them into mobile phone ring tones.
Nursalim who lives in Singapore and has refused to be questioned by KPK, has denied through family members that the money for the bribe to Gunawan came from him.
When announcing Artalyta's sentence, Judge Mansurdin Chaniago said the case had harmed law enforcement in Indonesia.
Gunawan was being tried separately. He and Artalyta claimed the money she gave him was a loan.
Artalyta's conviction came as two cabinet ministers were named in a separate corruption case. Paskah Suzetta, national development planning minister, and Malam Sambat Ka'ban, forestry minister, had accepted bribes from Bank Indonensia or central bank officials between 1999 and 2004, according to testimony by Hamka Yandhu, a legislator being tried in the illegal Bank Indonesia funds transfer case.
