Involved in Fraud Case, Former Central Lombok Regent Detained!

The Central Lombok District Prosecutor’s Office (Kejari Lombok Tengah) has detained former Central Lombok Regent Suhaili Fadil Tohir in connection with a fraud and embezzlement case. The detention is based on the Supreme Court (MA) cassation decision, which ruled Suhaili guilty with final legal force.

“(Detained) for the fraud case. Related to the victim, Mrs Karina. Eight-month sentence at the cassation level,” stated the Head of the General Criminal Section (Kasi Pidum) of Kejari Lombok Tengah, Fajar Said, to the media on Thursday (7/5/2026).

Observations by detikBali showed Suhaili, accompanied by his legal counsel, arriving at the Kejari Lombok Tengah office around 2:00 PM WITA. Suhaili appeared wearing a red vest and a kopiah.

Before being executed to the Class IIB Praya Detention Centre (Rutan) at 3:35 PM WITA, Suhaili first underwent a thorough health examination. The two-term former Central Lombok Regent was declared fit for detention.

Fajar explained that this execution follows the Supreme Court of Indonesia Cassation Decision Number: 279 K/Pid/2026 dated 3 February 2026. In the decision, heard by the Supreme Court Judicial Panel chaired by Prof Surya Jaya, the defendant’s cassation petition was rejected.

As a result, Suhaili was lawfully and convincingly proven guilty of committing the criminal offence as stipulated in Article 492 of the National Criminal Code (formerly Article 378 of the Criminal Code). For his actions, the judicial panel imposed a prison sentence of 8 (eight) months on Suhaili.

“We demanded one year and six months, the District Court sentenced three months. Then on appeal at the High Court, it increased to one year. Then at cassation, it decreased to eight months,” Fajar added.

With the execution carried out, the convict will immediately serve his sentence at the Class IIB Praya Detention Centre in accordance with the applicable legal decision. “It will be reduced by the time he served under city detention. One-fifth, for example, if one month, 30 divided by five means six days in one month. Meaning, the calculation, if the prison sentence is one month, in the city it becomes six days,” Fajar concluded.