Attorney General Denies Viral Claims Prosecutors Bribed Regarding Rizieq



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Jakarta, CNN Indonesia –

Office of the Attorney General (BEHIND) denied that a viral video recording the prosecutor’s confession had been bribed. The viral video on social media includes a narrative that the prosecutor is the one handling the case. Rizieq Shihab who is currently on trial in the East Jakarta District Court.

In his statement, Kapuspenkum AGO Leonard Eben Ezer Simanjuntak confirmed that the video of the prosecutor’s confession took place in 2016 as a result of the operation of the institution’s Sable Extortion team.

“That the video of the arrest of an individual prosecutor by the Attorney General’s Saber Pungli team was an incident that occurred in November 2016 and is not an admission by the prosecutor that he received a bribe in the Habib Rizieq Sihab trial in the handling of corruption crime case Sale of village treasury land in Kali Mok village, Kalianget district, Sumenep Regency, East Java, “said Leonard’s statement received on Saturday (3/20).

The official who explained the arrest of the AF, Leonard explained, was the prosecutor Yulianto, who at that time was Head of the Deputy Directorate of Corruption of the Director of Investigation of the Attorney General’s Office for Special Crimes.

“That the official explaining the arrest of prosecutor AF in the video is Mr. Yulianto, SH MH, who is currently the Head of the East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) Superior Prosecutor’s Office,” Leonard said.

Therefore, the narrative in the viral video recording, Leonard said, could be classified as fake news, also known as hoax. His party also asked not to broadcast the video with this misleading narrative.

“We also ask the public not to make news or videos or information that is false and to disseminate it to the public through existing social networks,” he said.

For the dissemination of fraudulent content through social networks, Leonard warned about the threat of Law Number 19 of 2016 on Modifications to Law Number 11 of 2008 on Information and Electronic Transactions, especially article 45A paragraph (1).

For information, Rizieq is currently in prison as a defendant in three cases that are currently being tried in the East Jakarta District Court. All three cases were the case of the Petamburan crowd, the Megamendung crowd, and the lies in the Covid-19 risk smear test results at Bogor Ummi Hospital.

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