REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) prosecutor has demanded 16 years in prison and a fine of Rp1 billion or six months more in prison for former house speaker Setya Novanto (Setnov) for corruption. Novanto was tried as defendant in alleged e-ID card graft case.
"(We demand) the judges to rule that Novanto had validly and convincingly committed corruption and sentence him to 16 years in priso with a fine of Rp1 billion," anti-graft agency's prosecutor Abdul Basir stated, while reading out his demand at the Central Jakarta district court, Jakarta, on Thursday.
The KPK prosecutor also demanded Novanto to pay compensation for the state fund losses he has caused.
"(We demand that the judges) would give an additional penalty by asking Novanto to pay US$7.435 million, minus Rp5 billion that the defendant had returned a month after the ruling was permanently effective. If he fails to meet the payment, his assets will be confiscated and later auctioned off to cover the payment. If his assets cannot meet the compensation payment, he would be sent to jail for three years," Basir noted.
"The defendant's act is not supportive of the government's anti-corruption drive and is massive, affecting the national sovereignty over population data, while its effect still lingers on until now," he explained.
The prosecutor has also demanded the revocation of his political right. "(We demand) that his political right would be revoked for five years after he serves his prison term," he added.
The prosecutor has rejected Novanto's demand for a justice collaborator status. "The defendant has failed to meet the qualifications for a justice collaborator, and so we cannot accept his demand, but later if he could meet the requirements, the prosecutor may reconsider it," Basri elaborated.
Novanto has been guilty of collecting US$7.3 million and a Richard Mille watch, worth US$135 thousand, causing a loss of Rp2.324 trillion to the state from the electronic ID project worth Rp5.9 trillion.
Novanto is scheduled to make his defense statement on April 13.
Three people have already been sentenced to imprisonment in connection with the corruption case. They are former director general for population affairs Irman, former director for population administration information management Sugiharto, and businessman Andi Narogong. They have respectively been sentenced to seven years, five years, and eight years in prisons and have also been fined.
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