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Prosecutors seek tough sentences for former prison guards
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Grounded: Police immobilize inmates who attempted to break out of the Class IIB Sialang Bungkuk penitentiary, Pekanbaru, Riau, in May last year. (JP/File)
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rosecutors have asked Pekanbaru Corruption Court’s judge panel to sentence three former officers of the Sialang Bungkuk penitentiary to between 4.5 and 5.5 years in prison for allegedly receiving illegal levies.
The prosecutors said the illegal fee practices allegedly committed by warden Taufik and two security guards, Muhammad Kurniawan and Ripo Riski, triggered a brawl that led to the escape of hundreds of inmates from the facility in May last year.
At a hearing on Tuesday evening, prosecutor Muhammad Amin from the Pekanbaru Prosecutors’ Office said his team had sought a tough sentence for the three prison officers for having misused their authority to allegedly extort inmates.
The defendants have violated articles 12 (e) and 11 of Law No. 31/1999 in reference to Law No. 20/2001 on corruption eradication, he added.
“We want Taufik to be sentenced to 5.5 year in prison and 4.5 years for Kurniawan and Riski,” said Amin. “The sentence sought for Taufik is heavier because he has also been charged for violating Article 4 of Law No.8/2010 on money laundering. He allegedly used money from the illegal levy practices to buy a car on credit.”
Amin said the three defendants allegedly committed the illegal levy practices repeatedly with desperate inmates, who wanted to move from their overcrowded cells to a more comfortable one, as their main targets.
“We also asked the judge panel to order the defendants to pay Rp 200 million [US$ 15,040] in fines or face an additional four months in prison,” he added. (ebf)
