Prosecutor: Pinangki asks her husband to exchange US dollars from Djoko Tjandra’s page

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com – Lawyer Pinangki Sirna Malasari allegedly asked her husband, AKBP Napitupulu Yogi Yusuf, to exchange the money in US dollars she received from Djoko Tjandra.

This was revealed by the Public Prosecutor (JPU) when reading the indictment in a trial in the Corruption Court in the Central District Court of Jakarta, on Wednesday (9/23/2020).

“The defendant asked her husband, AKBP Napitupulu Yogi Yusuf, to exchange US dollars,” the prosecutor said via live broadcast on her YouTube account. KompasTV.

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Later, Pinangki’s husband told his staff to make the exchange.

“Then AKBP Napitupulu Yogi Yusuf ordered his staff named Beni Sastrawan to go to Pakubuwono’s apartment and meet with the defendant’s driver named Sugiarto to exchange the defendant’s US dollar currency,” he said.

The total amount of money converted was from US $ 47,600 to Rs 696,722,000.

The money that has been exchanged is transferred to Pinangki’s account, Pinangki’s sister’s account named Pungki Primarini, and given to Pinangki in cash.

In this case, Pinangki was accused of receiving $ 500,000 from Djoko Tjandra in connection with the management of fatwa in the Supreme Court (MA).

The fatwa was an attempt by Djoko Tjandra not to be executed in the case of the transfer of collection rights (cessie) to Bank Bali so that he could return to Indonesia without serving a two-year sentence in that case.

Of the amount he received, Pinangki gave US $ 50,000 to his colleague to administer the fatwa, Anita Kolopaking. The rest is for Pinangki’s personal interests.

In addition to being traded through her husband’s staff, Pinangki also asked her driver, Sugiarto, and someone whose name was no longer remembered to make the exchange.

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A total of US $ 280,000 converted into rupees through the Pinangki controller with a value of 3,908,407,000 rupees.

“The defendant ordered his driver named Sugiarto to exchange US dollars with an order that the exchange should not exceed 500 million rupees with the intention of not being monitored by the PPATK,” the prosecutor said.

Meanwhile, the exchange through an unknown person was up to 10,000 US dollars or Rp.148,700,000.

In total, Pinangki converted US $ 337,600 into rupees with a value of around 4,753,829,000 rupees.

After the money was exchanged, Pinangki purchased a BMW X5 car, paid rent for Trump International Apartments in the US, paid for estheticians in the US, paid for home care physicians, and paid bills for the credit cards.

The remaining US dollars he had were then used to pay the rent for two luxury apartments in South Jakarta.

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In this case, Pinangki was charged by article 5 paragraph 2 in conjunction with article 5 paragraph (1) letter a of Law Number 31 of 1999 modified by Law Number 20 of 2001 relative to the Eradication of Corruption, a subsidiary of the Article 11 of the Corruption Law.

Pinangki was also charged with the crime of money laundering (TPPU). Pinangki was charged with Article 3 of Law Number 8 of 2010 on ML Prevention and Eradication.

Finally, Pinangki was charged with criminal conspiracy and charged with article 15 in relation to article 5, paragraph (1) letter a, of article 15 of the Subsidiary Corruption Law together with article 13 of the Corruption Law.