AGO Responds to Febrie Adriansyah's Planned Pretrial Motion
The Attorney General’s Office (AGO) has responded to the planned pretrial motion to be filed by former Junior Attorney General for Special Crimes (Jampidsus), Febrie Adriansyah. Febrie is currently a suspect in an alleged money laundering (TPPU) case.
Head of the AGO Legal Information Centre (Kapuspenkum), Anang Supriatna, stated that his office respects the legal step as a constitutional right of the suspect guaranteed by law. “Please go ahead, it is the right of the suspect and his legal counsel to file a pretrial motion,” Anang Supriatna told journalists in Jakarta on Tuesday (4/8).
Anang added that the procedure for filing a pretrial motion is clearly regulated in the Criminal Procedure Code (KUHAP). Therefore, the former Jampidsus has the legal space to test the validity of the legal procedures carried out by investigators.
Febrie Adriansyah’s camp, through his legal counsel Firman Wijaya, revealed plans to file two pretrial motions simultaneously. These motions target the procedures for naming a suspect carried out by two law enforcement institutions, namely the Attorney General’s Office and the National Police.
Firman detailed that the first motion relates to the coercive measures taken by the AGO in naming his client a suspect in the alleged money laundering case and his subsequent detention. Meanwhile, the second motion is directed at the coercive measures in naming a suspect in the alleged corruption and money laundering case, including the search and seizure conducted by the Metro Jaya Regional Police and/or the Police’s Corruption Eradication Corps (Kortastipidkor).
To date, the AGO investigation team has named Febrie Adriansyah alongside a private party, Nurman Herin, as suspects in the alleged money laundering case. Separately, the National Police have also named Febrie a suspect in a corruption and money laundering case related to the handling of the PT Asabri case for the 2020-2024 period. In the case handled by the police, a private party named Don Ritto has also been named a suspect in the alleged money laundering.