Judge postpones verdict for businessman

The South Jakarta District Court failed to deliver its scheduled verdict on Thursday for Alif Kuncoro, a businessman charged with bribing a police investigator with a luxury motorcycle during an investigation into a case of alleged tax fraud.

Mien Trisnawati, the presiding judge, said that the court has yet to complete the verdict documents. “Let’s be patient. Let’s wait until Monday,” she said during the Thursday trial session, as quoted by tempointeraktif.com.

State prosecutors are seeking a two-and-a-half year jail term and a Rp 100 million (US$11,100) fine for Alif.

Prosecutors said there was convincing evidence and witness testimony confirming Alif’s initiative in offering bribes to a police officer, who was then investigating a tax fraud case that may have involved his younger brother, Imam Cahyo Maliki.

Imam was a tax consultant hired by PT Bumi Resources, and allegedly bribed former tax official Gayus Tambunan to settle Bumi’s tax problems.

The testimonies of ten witnesses confirmed that Alif had offered investigating police officer Comr. Muhammad Arafat Enanie a Rp 420 million Harley-Davidson motorcycle.