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PROSECUTOR URIP TRI GUNAWAN SENTENCED 20 YEARS IN JAIL
Jakarta, Sept 4 (ANTARA) - Prosecutor Tri Urip Gunawan was sentenced to 20 years in jail by the Corruption Court here on Thursday for having received bribes amounting to US$660 thousands and Rp1 billion.
The panel of judges chaired by Teguh Hariyanto said that Gunawan was legally and convincingly proven to have received a bribe of US$660,000 from businesswoman Artalyta Suryani.
Besides, Gunawan was also proven to have blackmailed former head of the National Bank Restructuring Agency (BPPN), Glen Surya Yusuf, for Rp1 billion.
The panel of judges also fined the convict Rp500 million in lieu of one year confinement.
Urip violated article 12B and 12E Law No. 31 / 1999 as amended by article 20, of the law on the elimination of corruption crimes.
Last March 2, at 4:30 pm, agents of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) caught Urip Tri Gunawan red-handed receiving a bribe of US$600,000 from Artalysa Suryani in a house in South Jakarta.
When arrested, he was transporting the money in cash he had just received from Arthalita Suryani at the home of Sjamsul Nursalim, owner of BDNI in South Jakarta.
Gunawan is the former head of a team of 35 prosecutors that had investigated a Bank Indonesia Liquidity Assistance debtor's case.
The BLBI refers to emergency liquidity credits extended by Bank Indonesia (BI), the central bank, to commercial banks during the financial crisis which began in mid 1997. About Rp51.7 trillion of the credits had turned bad.
The arrest was made only two days after the Attorney General's Office announced that it had terminated its investigation into the BLBI cases involving the owners of Bank Central Asia (BCA) and Bank Dagang Nasional on the ground that its investigators had not found any indications of corruption in the bankers' efforts to settle their debts to the state.
The panel of judges chaired by Teguh Hariyanto said that Gunawan was legally and convincingly proven to have received a bribe of US$660,000 from businesswoman Artalyta Suryani.
Besides, Gunawan was also proven to have blackmailed former head of the National Bank Restructuring Agency (BPPN), Glen Surya Yusuf, for Rp1 billion.
The panel of judges also fined the convict Rp500 million in lieu of one year confinement.
Urip violated article 12B and 12E Law No. 31 / 1999 as amended by article 20, of the law on the elimination of corruption crimes.
Last March 2, at 4:30 pm, agents of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) caught Urip Tri Gunawan red-handed receiving a bribe of US$600,000 from Artalysa Suryani in a house in South Jakarta.
When arrested, he was transporting the money in cash he had just received from Arthalita Suryani at the home of Sjamsul Nursalim, owner of BDNI in South Jakarta.
Gunawan is the former head of a team of 35 prosecutors that had investigated a Bank Indonesia Liquidity Assistance debtor's case.
The BLBI refers to emergency liquidity credits extended by Bank Indonesia (BI), the central bank, to commercial banks during the financial crisis which began in mid 1997. About Rp51.7 trillion of the credits had turned bad.
The arrest was made only two days after the Attorney General's Office announced that it had terminated its investigation into the BLBI cases involving the owners of Bank Central Asia (BCA) and Bank Dagang Nasional on the ground that its investigators had not found any indications of corruption in the bankers' efforts to settle their debts to the state.
