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Life sentence upheld for ex-police general Teddy Minahasa
Former West Sumatra Police chief Teddy Minahasa was found guilty of orchestrating a scheme to steal 5 kilograms of methampthetamine from a police evidence store to be sold to drug dealers in Jakarta.
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Former West Sumatra Police chief Teddy Minahasa Putra (left) attends a court hearing in Jakarta on May 9, 2023. (Antara/Aprillio Akbar)
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panel of Supreme Court justices has rejected an appeal and upheld the life sentence for former two-star police general Teddy Minahasa for trafficking illicit drugs seized by the institution he led.
The ruling was read out on Friday in a live-streamed hearing with all justices rejecting the appeal.
Teddy was found guilty by a panel of judges of the West Jakarta District Court in May of scheming to steal 5 kilograms of methamphetamine from a store of seized drugs at the Bukittinggi Police headquarters in West Sumatra.
While serving as chief of the West Sumatra Police at the time of the crime in May 2022, Teddy ordered his subordinate, mid-ranking officer Dody Prawiranegara, to swap 10 kg of meth in police storage with potassium aluminum sulfate, a chemical compound that has a similar appearance to the class-1 drug, as part of a plot to sell the illicit drugs on the street.
Dody initially refused, according to the court’s testimony, but he later relented, agreeing to sell only 5 kg.
Teddy then connected Dody to his longtime acquaintance, Linda Pudjiastuti also known as Anita Cepu, who paid Dody Rp 300 million (US$18,855) and sold the meth to drug dealers in Jakarta.
The life sentence was lighter than the prosecutors’ demand for the death penalty.
