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Ferdy Sambo’s ex-subordinates sentenced to prison for obstructing justice
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The South Jakarta District Court has sentenced two former police officers to three and two years in prison, respectively, for their role in helping disgraced two-star police general Ferdy Sambo attempt to cover up the murder of his aide-de-camp Nofriansyah Yosua Hutabarat in July of last year. (Shutterstock/-)
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he South Jakarta District Court has sentenced two former police officers to three and two years in prison, respectively, for their role in helping disgraced two-star police general Ferdy Sambo attempt to cover up the murder of his aide-de-camp Nofriansyah Yosua Hutabarat in July of last year.
In two separate trials on Monday, the three-member bench found Hendra Kurniawan, who at the time of the murder was one of Ferdy’s highest ranking subordinates in the National Police’s internal affairs division, and Agus Nurpatria, Hendra’s own subordinate, guilty of obstructing justice in Yosua’s investigation.
The initial narrative surrounding Yosua’s death suggested that he had been killed in a shootout with Richard Eliezer, another aide-de-camp assigned to Ferdy, on July 8, 2022, at Ferdy’s official residence in South Jakarta before Ferdy had arrived at the scene of the crime.
Presiding judge Ahmad Suhel said on Monday that there was a chain of command, which started from Ferdy, that looked to keep up the false shootout narrative by deleting any CCTV footage that contradicted it.
Hendra, upon receiving instructions from Ferdy, first ordered Agus, who then ordered Irfan Widianto – who at the time was working at the police’s Criminal Investigation Department (Bareskrim) – to retrieve the CCTV footage around the scene of the crime.
Hendra then ordered his own men to skim through and delete CCTV footage that showed Yosua still alive when Ferdy entered the house. He also ordered the deletion of footage of Ferdy disembarking from his vehicle wearing a black glove, which Ferdy was wearing when he ultimately fired the lethal shot into Yosua’s head.
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