Yusril, Hartono believed involved in corruption: prosecutor
Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Former minister Yusril Ihza Mahendra and businessman Hartono Tanoesoediyo are believed to have taken part in corrupt acts in procuring a Legal Entity Administration System at the justice ministry, a public prosecutor said.
Public prosecutor Fadil Zumhana disclosed this in a session of the South Jakarta District Court on Monday on alleged corruption in the purchase of a Legal Entity Administration System (Sisminbakum) at the Justice and Human Rights ministry that caused a financial loss of 410 billion rupiahs to the state.
"Other alleged corrupters mentioned in the indictment are Ali Amran Djanah and Yohanes Waworuntu," the public prosecutor said before a panel of judges in the reply to the demurrer on defendant Romli Atmasasmita.
Zumhana said the four men, apart from the defendant, had the same status under Article 55 of the first part of the Criminal Code because they had caused the criminal acts to be committed.
"So that, addressing the defendant as the executor or involved in the execution as mentioned in the indictment is already clear and not vague," the public prosecutor said.
The defendant`s lawyer said in the last week session that the public prosecutor`s accusations against his client was not clear or vague so that the session could not be continued.
"The session cannot be continued because the one brought as the defendant was the wrong person and this should be another person," said Romli`s lawyers team comprising Denny Kailimang, Juniver Girsang and Johansyah.
In the case which firstly came up in 2001, the prosecutor office had decided five defendants namely Romli Atmasasmita and Zulkarnain Yunus (both former AHU director generals), AHU nonactive director general Syamsuddin Manan Sinaga, SRD president director Yohannes Woworuntu and former the "Pengayoman" cooperative chairman at the Justice and Humanrights ministry Ali Amran Djannah. (*)
Tue, 05 May 2009
JAKCHAT/Website at the heart of graft scandal shut down
TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta: Trials of a corruption case at the Justice and Human Rights Ministry resumed on Monday as South Jakarta Court brought in another former officials Romli Atmasasmita.
The first trial last week presented another former Director General of the General Law Administration Syamsuddin Manan Sinaga.
State prosecutor indicted Romli Atmasasmita of running a registration system for newly established private companies which charged companies for the service at higher rate than regulated registration fee.
Investigation into the case also indicated violation by the justice ministry in selecting partner to set up the system.
Around 90 percent of the revenues from the service went to the partner company PT Sarana Rekatama Dinamika and prosecutors said Romli was in charge to split the revenue.
Romli who heads the directorate since 2001 faced maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. The system started operating in 2001.
Two other suspects in the case were Director of PT Sarana Rekatama Dinamika Yohanes Waworuntu and chairman of the ministry cooperatives which serves as the ministry's unit that managed the service with its partner company.
Yusril Ihza Mahendra former Justice and Human Rights Minister from 2001-2004 and PT Sarana Rekatama stakeholder Hartono Tanoesoedibjo, had been named as witnesses.
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Wed, 07 Jan 2009
JAKCHAT/Website at the heart of graft scandal shut down
not quite a good idea ... the website was complete shite. may better be called a webshite. programmer did a quickie database program using 2002 technology, and it was never, ever touched again. it was bad, bad, bad.
Wed, 07 Jan 2009
JAKCHAT/Website at the heart of graft scandal shut down
Dozens of notaries flocked to the Justice and Human Rights Ministry office Tuesday as they scrambled to process their clients’ business permits, following the closure of a graft-linked online administration system.
The ministry’s website, www.sisminbakum.com, intended for the online processing of permits for, among others, the establishment and bylaw modification of enterprises, was officially closed on Tuesday after the Attorney General’s Office confiscated money, bank accounts and various operating devices owned by PT Sarana Rekatama Dinamika (SRD), the ministry’s partner responsible for operating the website.
The items were confiscated as evidence in a graft case that centers on the online service’s procurement and operations, and allegedly involves several former and current senior officials at the ministry, including prominent legal expert and former director general for public law administration Romli Atmasasmita.
If the closure continues, investors will have to return to the manual system, which takes longer - and often costs more because of the need to pay bribes - than the online system.
Yudi, an assistant to a Central Jakarta-based notary, said he had to wait for almost four hours at the justice ministry. He had registered business permits for eight clients through the online system about two weeks ago.
“There are time limits for processing the permits; a maximum of 60 days for the establishment of a new business and 30 days for bylaw modification of an old business. Now with the closure of the website, we don’t know when the process will be completed,” he said.
No SRD officials were seen at the ministry office.
Another employee of a notary office, Diana, was disappointed SRD had not warned in advance that it would close the website.
“We don’t know yet what to do if nothing’s done about this. We’re badly affected by this case,” she said.
Although the online service is no longer active, notaries wishing to process their clients’ business permits can still do so by coming directly to the office of the Justice and Human Rights Ministry.
However, Yudi said the manual process required several visits to the ministry, compared with only one when registering for the permit online, and required a much longer processing period too.
On Monday, SRD lawyer Hotma Sitompoel said the company had to shut down the service because the devices and money needed to operate it had been confiscated by prosecutors.
The AGO says the appointment of SRD to run the online service violated regulations because of the lack of an open tender. The case is believed to have caused Rp 400 billion in state losses.
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