Brigadier General Prasetijo admits that he gave US $ 20,000 from Tommy Sumardi to investigators.

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com – Former Karo Korwas PPNS Bareskrim Polri Brig. Gen. (Pol) Prasetijo Utomo admitted that he had returned US $ 20,000 or around Rp 282 million received from Tommy Sumardi to investigators.

He admitted that he received the money from Tommy Sumardi on April 27, 2020. According to Prasetijo, he initially returned the money to the Division of Security and Police Profession (Propam).

“It was returned to me when Propam questioned me on July 15, 2020,” Prasetijo said while testifying on behalf of the defendant Djoko Tjandra in a trial for alleged corruption related to the removal of the red notice, in the Jakarta Corruption Court, the Thursday (10/12/2020). Between.

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Prasetijo revealed that when he was questioned by the Police Propam Division, he was confronted with businessman Tommy Sumardi.

Meanwhile, Tommy is also a defendant in this case. He was accused of negotiating bribes from Djoko Tjandra to two police generals, including Prasetijo.

Based on Prasetijo’s statement, after being confronted, he asked his wife to return the money received from Tommy to Propam.

“Pak Kadiv (Propam) at that time Pak Sigit (the late Inspector General Ignatius Sigit Widiatmono) asked, ‘Didn’t you accept Djoko Tjandra?’ I replied ‘General, don’t slander, I never got it from Djoko Tjandra,’ “he said.

“Then Mr. Tommy stood in front of me pointing at me, then I also told Mr. Tommy pointing ‘You Ji, give me, if that’s the money I take now’, then I called my wife so that in the morning my wife off to Provost. ” he continued.

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A few moments later, Prasetijo said, the money was finally turned over to the Police Criminal Investigation Unit.

“Then when I was examined as a witness in the Criminal Investigation Unit on August 13, 2020, suddenly members of Propam came into my exam room, brought money with me, then I asked them, ‘What are you doing, brothers?’ The answer was: ‘This general. I want to hand over the money, then I’ll hand it over to the investigators, ”Prasetijo said.

In this case, there were a total of four defendants. First, Djoko Tjandra was accused of bribing two police generals, namely Inspector General Napoleon Bonaparte and Prasetijo, through the defendant Tommy Sumardi.

Napoleon, former head of the International Relations Division of the National Police, was accused of receiving money from Djoko Tjandra worth 200,000 Singapore dollars and 270,000 US dollars or 6.1 billion rupees.

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The prosecutor then charged Prasetijo with receiving $ 150,000 or about Rs 2,200 million in this case.

According to the prosecutor, in several letters issued by order of Napoleon, the immigration authorities removed Djoko Tjandra’s name from the wanted list (DPO).

Djoko Tjandra, who was convicted in the Bank Bali case, was able to enter Indonesia and file a PK with the South Jakarta District Court in June 2020 despite being persecuted by the prosecution.