Kortastipidkor Polri ready to face Febrie Adriansyah's pretrial motion

The Indonesian National Police’s Corruption Eradication Corps (Kortastipidkor) has stated it is ready to face a pretrial motion filed by former Junior Attorney General for Special Crimes (Jampidsus) Febrie Adriansyah. “Kortastipidkor Polri is ready to face the pretrial lawsuit,” said Kortastipidkor Polri Operations Section Head, Senior Commissioner Ahmad Yusuf Afandi, to the media in Jakarta on Tuesday. According to Yusuf, Febrie Adriansyah’s legal team has the right to file a pretrial motion as it is regulated under Article 1, point 15 of the Criminal Procedure Code (KUHAP). He explained that the article limits who may file an objection through the pretrial mechanism, namely the suspect or their family, the victim or their family, and the reporting party, advocate, or legal aid provider authorised to represent the legal interests of the suspect or victim. “Thus, in principle, pretrial procedural law is intended for persons or parties who have a direct legal interest and connection to the object of the pretrial,” he said. Febrie Adriansyah’s camp is set to file a pretrial motion regarding his suspect designation by both the Attorney General’s Office and the National Police. A member of Febrie’s legal team, Firman Wijaya, explained that his side would submit two pretrial petitions. The first petition relates to the coercive measures taken by the Attorney General’s Office in naming him a suspect in an alleged money laundering case and the subsequent detention. The second petition concerns the coercive measures in the suspect designation for alleged corruption and money laundering, as well as the search and seizure conducted by the Polda Metro Jaya and/or the Police’s Corruption Eradication Corps (Kortastipidkor). The Attorney General’s Office’s investigation team had previously named Febrie Adriansyah and private sector individual Nurman Herin as suspects in the alleged money laundering case. Meanwhile, the National Police named Febrie a suspect for alleged corruption and money laundering in the handling of the PT Asabri case for the 2020-2024 period. Private sector individual Don Ritto was also named a suspect in the same case.