Ex-Supreme Court official arrested for bribery after murder acquittal in Surabaya - Politics

Prosecutors’ Office (AGO) investigators have arrested a former senior Supreme Court official as a suspect in a bribery case linked to the acquittal of a lawmaker’s son in a high-profile murder case in Surabaya, East Java, that took place last year.

On Friday, investigators named Zarof Ricar, former head of the Supreme Court’s Legal and Judicial Research and Development Office, a suspect in the case after arresting him in Bali on Thursday evening. Zarof retired from the Supreme Court in 2022.

Zarof is suspected of taking bribes from Lisa Rahmat, a lawyer representing defendant Gregorius Ronald Tannur in the murder case, in exchange for a Supreme Court ruling in her client’s favor in the case.

“Lisa asked Zarof to let Supreme Court judges uphold the lower court ruling that acquitted Ronald of all charges,” Abdul Qohar, director of investigations at the Office of the Assistant Attorney General for Extraordinary Crimes, said at a news conference in Jakarta on Friday. evening.

He added that the lawyer would pay Rp 1 billion (US$63,714) to Zohar and another Rp 5 billion to the judges who would hear the appeal. Lisa gave the foreign currency money worth Rp 5 billion at the request of the retired judge, who then kept the money in a safe in his Jakarta home.

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In addition to Ronald’s case, the AGO also suspected Zarof of taking bribes for other cases during his tenure as a Supreme Court judge between 2012 and 2022. Over ten years, he allegedly accepted tips worth Rp 920 billion and about 51 kilograms of gold . .

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