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Adhi Karya boss sentenced to 4.5 years
The Jakarta Corruption Court on Tuesday handed down a four-and-a-half-year jail term to former director of construction company PT Adhi Karya, Teuku Bagus Mohamad Noor, after he was found guilty in the Rp 2
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he Jakarta Corruption Court on Tuesday handed down a four-and-a-half-year jail term to former director of construction company PT Adhi Karya, Teuku Bagus Mohamad Noor, after he was found guilty in the Rp 2.5 trillion (US$213 million) graft case involving the Hambalang sports complex project in West Java.
Adhi Karya was the company that won the Hambalang project, which was organized by the Sports and Youth Ministry in 2010.
'Our examination has found the defendant guilty of corruption together with others in the case,' presiding judge Adi Santoso read from his verdict at the court on Tuesday.
The sentence was lighter than the seven years sought by KPK prosecutors. The panel of judges at the court also ordered Teuku to pay Rp 300 million in fines or serve a further six months behind bars should he fail to do so.
Teuku was found guilty of embezzling Rp 4.5 billion from the Hambalang budget, while he was also found guilty of allowing Adhi Karya to illegally subcontract a majority of Hambalang construction jobs, amounting to hundreds of billions of rupiah, to scores of companies.
He illegally subcontracted Hambalang work worth Rp 328 billion to PT Dutasari Citra Laras, a Rp 3 billion project to PT Aria Linga and a Rp 56 billion project to 36 other companies.
Teuku looked calm and even fell asleep during the reading of his verdict (see photo below).
He is the second culprit to have been convicted in the graft case, which according to the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) resulted in Rp 463 billion in state losses, after the court imprisoned Deddy Kusdinar, former chief financial and internal affairs officer at the Youth and Sports Ministry, for six years in March.
