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Businessman declared guilty in Bakamla graft case
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The defendant of a graft case pertaining to a Maritime Security Board (Bakamla) procurement project, Fahmi Darmawansyah, leaves a court room at the Jakarta Corruption Court after his verdict on Wednesday, May 24. The panel of judges declare him guilty and sentence him to two years and eight months in prison for bribing four Bakamla officials. (Antara/Hafidz Mubarak A.)
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panel of judges from the Jakarta Corruption Court has declared businessman Fahmi Darmawansyah guilty for bribing four officials in a graft case pertaining to a Maritime Security Board (Bakamla) procurement project and sentenced him to two years and eight months in prison.
The judges also ordered the president director of Merial Esa to pay a Rp 150 million (US$11,250) fine.
“The defendant has been proven guilty for committing graft,” presiding judge Yohanes Priana told the hearing on Wednesday as reported by kompas.com.
The verdict was lighter than demands made by Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) prosecutors, who had sought four years’ imprisonment and a Rp 200 million fine.
The aggravating factor in the verdict, Yohanes said, was that as a young businessman, Fahmi did not support the government in its fight against corruption and should have followed the proper procedures in doing business. However, the mitigating factors were that he had never been punished and had shown remorse for his misconduct.
Fahmi, along with two executives of his company, bribed Bakamla deputy chief Eko Susilo Hadi with Rp 2 billion to win the tender for a sea surveillance satellite systems project worth RP 222 billion.
Besides Eko, bribes were allegedly handed to Bakamla’s data and information director commodore Bambang Udoyo; Bakamla’s bureau head of planning, Nofel Hasan; and Eko’s administration staffer, Tri Nanda Wicaksono. (rin)
