Demanded to pay replacement money of Rp. 10 billion, Heru Hidayat: My assets are not enough

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com – PT Trada Alam Minera President Commissioner Heru Hidayat admitted that he has no assets worth Rs 10 trillion.

The suspect in the alleged corruption of PT Asuransi Jiwasraya replied to the prosecutor who demanded that he pay a replacement fee of Rs 10.728 trillion.

The answer was contained in a defense or pledoi note that was read at the hearing on Thursday (10/22/2020).

“In this trial, I was accused of obtaining and enjoying more than Rs 10 trillion and ordered to replace him. Despite the fact that all the assets that I have had from the start of the work to date have not even reached Rs 10 trillion “, as quoted in the pledoi document received. Kompas.com.

In addition to the replacement money, Heru was also charged with life imprisonment and a 5 billion rupee fine, a subsidiary of one year in prison.

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Regarding the ongoing trial process, Heru said that no witness from Jiwasraya, the investment manager or the broker, said that he had ever given up to Rs 10 trillion to him.

“Even the BPK experts said they only counted the money that came out of Jiwasraya, where the money went to the investment manager and was used to buy shares, they never said money had flowed to me from Jiwasraya,” he said.

Heru also brought up the money transfer details of the person his nominee called. However, referring to the testing process, the nominee was Pieter Rasiman’s nominee.

Then, it considered that there was no evidence that it controlled and administered 13 investment managers through another defendant in this case, Joko Hartono Tirto.

At the same time, Heru denied the e-mailed evidence requesting a transfer of hundreds of billions of money to another defendant, Benny Tjokosaputro.

“In the charges, the email was used as proof that I received hundreds of billions from Benny. Isn’t it true that if a person is accused of receiving a transfer, it can and should be proven with a transfer receipt or an account? current? ”he said.

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From being named a suspect on January 14, 2020 until now, Heru admitted that he did not understand why he was being charged in the Jiwasraya case.

However, as the head of the family and the leader of the company, Heru decided to be tough and strong.

For the case that caught him, Heru apologized to his family, former employees, shareholders and customers.

Heru hopes the judging panel will make a fair decision. He also hopes to be released by the panel of judges.

“I hope that my hope of being free and returning to my family can be granted by God through the hammering of Your Honor, the Panel of Judges here,” he said.

Earlier, in the description of the first indictment, the Attorney General’s Office assessed that Heru Hidayat was proven to have received a profit of IDR 10.728 billion.

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“The defendants Heru Hidayat and Benny Tjokrosaputro managed the 21 underlying mutual funds with 13 investment managers enriched with Rp 12,157 billion, so that each received Rp. 6.078 billion,” said the prosecutor Retno Liestyanti during a court hearing of Corruption in Central Jakarta, cited by Antara, on Thursday (10/15/2020).

According to the prosecutor, Heru Hidayat also received an additional profit of 4.65 trillion rupees, making Heru’s profit more than 10 trillion rupees.

Meanwhile, in counts two and three, Heru was found to have concealed or disguised the origin of the assets as a result of corruption during 2008-2010 and 2010-2018 in various ways.