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KPK files reports on justice’s acquittal in Supreme Court corruption case
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Suspended Supreme Court justice Gazalba Saleh avoids reporters upon exiting the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) detention center in Jakarta on May 27, 2024. A panel of judges at the Jakarta Corruption Court ruled in Gazalba's favor in an interlocutory ruling, freeing him of the indictment of Rp 62.8 billion (US$3.8 million) money laundering pertaining to a case at the Supreme Court. (Antara/Indrianto Eko Suwarso)
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he Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has reported judges at the Jakarta Corruption Court for their acquittal of non-active Supreme Court justice Gazalba Saleh in a corruption case ahead of the resumption of his trial.
On Monday, the Jakarta High Court accepted the antigraft body’s appeal, annulling a Jakarta Corruption Court interlocutory verdict that acquitted Gazalba, a defendant in bribery and money laundering charges pertaining to a case handled at the Supreme Court.
According to the prosecutors’ indictment, the total amount of illicit gifts received and laundered by the justice was around Rp 62.8 billion (US$3.8 million).
In late May, a panel of judges at the corruption court ruled in favor of Gazalba, accepting his refutation plea and declaring the indictment against him invalid, on the grounds that KPK prosecutors did not have the authority to prosecute the defendant as they had not obtained permission from the Attorney General’s Office (AGO).
Judge Fahzal Hendri presided over the panel, with Sukartono and Rianto Adam Pontoh serving as the other judges in the case.
The High Court judges argued that the Jakarta Corruption Court’s ruling had caused legal uncertainty and disrupted the judicial process. They asserted that every KPK prosecutor had to obtain a warrant from the AGO, while stressing the antigraft body’s authority to investigate and indict corruption cases, as mandated by the 2019 KPK Law.
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