ADHI former boss sentenced to 4.5 years in prison

JAKARTA. The Jakarta Corruption Court sentenced Adhi Karya’s former construction division director, Teuku Bagus Mokhamad Noor, to four years and six months in prison and a Rp 150 million (US$12,853) fine, or an additional three months imprisonment.

The panel said Teuku Bagus was proven guilty of corruption in the Sports School and Education and Training Center (P3SON) construction project in Hambalang, Bogor, West Java.

“The defendant has been proven guilty of carrying out a collective corruption crime,” presiding judge Edi Santoso said as quoted by kompas.com when he read out the verdict at the court in Jakarta on Tuesday.

The sentence is lower than the Corruption Eradication Corruption (KPK) prosecutors’ demands, who sought seven years in prison and Rp 300 million in fines, or additional six months imprisonment.

The judge said the mitigating factors were the defendant’s courteous demeanor during trial, his cooperation and no previous convictions. Teuku Bagus had also returned all the money to the KPK.

The judge said Teuku Bagus was proven guilty of misusing his authority to enrich him himself personally and other people.

Teuku Bagus was proven to have channeled a sum of money to several parties to allow Adhi Karya win the Hambalang project tender, the judge said. His collective corruption had caused Rp 464.51 billion losses to the state, according to the Supreme Audit Agency’s (BPK) calculations.

It was also said Teuku Bagus was found guilty of enriching himself with Rp 4.53 billion from the Hambalang project.(fss/ebf)