REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- Habib Rizieq's lawyer, Kapitra Ampera has repeatedly said the police have issued investigation termination warrant (SP3) on his client alleged steamy conversation case. The warrant was issued since the police unable to find the maker and uploader, he claimed.
Kapitra said the chat that leaked online was a slander chat. Some digital forensic experts believed the chat was most likely fabricated. Therefore, he lauded the police's move to issue SP3 on the case involving Habib Rizieq and Firza Husein as suspects.
"Investigation to all suspects in slander chat case has been terminated following the issuance of SP3," Kapitra said when contacted by Republika.co.id, Friday (June 15).
However, Deputy Chief of National Police Syafruddin has not heard the information. He confirmed that it was the domain of investigator. "I will ask Jakarta Metro Police chief about the development of the case," he said in Jakarta, Friday.
Meanwhile, the Presidential expert staff Ali Mochtar Ngabalin has seen Habib Rizieq's video statement regarding the issuance of SP3. However, he has not received detail information. "I will hold press conference on Saturday morning about it," he said in Jakarta, Friday night.
Earlier, Habib Rizieq made a video statement posted on a Youtube channel, Front TV, regarding the issuance of SP3 of alleged steamy conversation case, on June 14. The Islamic Defenders Front leader said he has received original copy of the warrant.
"Alhamdulillah (thank God), today we receive original copy of SP3 on slander chat from our lawyer, Mr. Sugito Atmo who get it directly from investigator," Habib Rizieq said.
In this case, Habib Rizieq was threatened by Article 4 verse 1 jo Article 29 and/or Article 6 jo Article 32 and /or Article 9 jo Article 34 of Law No. 44 in 2008 on Pornography. He was threatened by five years of imprisonment.
Habib Rizieq was ensnared with seven cases after leading a series of Action to Defend Islam (Aksi Bela Islam) in 2016. Legal observers from the Police Science College (PTIK), Umar Husein, worried the alleged pornographic case that strangled Habib Rizieq Shihab was only a trade-off with Basuki Tjahaja Purnama imprisonment over blasphemy case. He did not accuse that, but he got the impression from the limited information given to the society.
"I'm worried it was a trade-off. It means if Ahok lost and jailed then Habib Rizieq' faction must also be hit," he said to Republika.co.id, on June 7, 2017.
Alleged defamation to Pancasila was the first case. It was reported by Sukmawati Soekarnoputri on October 2016. However, the police have dropped the case on May 2018 over the lack of evidence.
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