The Corruption Obliteration Commission (KPK) has criticized the Supreme Court’s current record of granting judicial evaluations of graft cases that have actually frequently led to lighter penalties than what was initially decided.
According to the KPK, a minimum of 20 graft cases dealt with by the commission between 2019 and 2020 were “bungled” by the Supreme Court’s allegedly lenient rulings.
” The KPK is puzzled by the Supreme Court’s installing approvals of case review demands,” KPK representative Ali Fikri stated in a declaration on Monday as priced estimate by tribunnews.com
Ali added that the tendency to lessen punishments for graft convicts might paint an unfavorable picture of the country’s legal system as a whole.
” As the vanguard of justice, the KPK thinks that this phenomenon will contribute to a bad public image […], which in turn will deteriorate public trust in legal institutions,” he said, including that corruption removal efforts required a strong commitment and a shared vision within the legal system.
Ali gotten in touch with the Supreme Court to issue a policy on such matters to ensure reasonable legal outcomes.
A petition for judicial evaluation contributed recently to the decrease of a prison sentence for National Awakening Celebration (PKB) lawmaker Musa Zainuddin, who was convicted of graft in 2017, from 9 years to six years. (rfa)
