Maki shocked that there was 5.5 billion in money under the mattress of the court of the judge for bribery

Jakarta –

The office of the Attorney General (ago) found a suitcase with RP 5.5 billion under the bed while searching the house of judge Ali Muhtarom in Jpara, Central Java, who was a bribery. The Indonesian Anti-corruption Society (Maki) claimed to be surprised by the findings.

“I was shocked and surprised that there was a video that was circulating that the office of the attorney general could find more than RP. 5 billion in the bed of a suspicious Ali Muhtarom in Jepara,” said coordinator Maki Boyamin Saiman on Thursday (4/24/2025).

Photo: Coordinator Maki Boyamin Saiman (Adrial/Detikcom)

How not surprised, Boyamin said, the billions of money were found in the house of the suspect of bribery Ali Muhtarom, who is also a corruption of the judge. In fact, Boyamin said, Ali Muhtarom could give the color of exterminating corruption by punishing the perpetrators, but Ali received bribes instead.

“Shock Ali Muhtarom, judge ad hoc Tipikor, who should have given a color to eradicate corruption in court by punishing him to be able to investigate the turns of corruption and automatically give an example of anti-corruption,” Boyamin said.

“This even went along with accepting, even hidden in this house something that surprised us all, so it dares to bring the house of the evidence,” he added.

Boyamin pushed Ali to be severely punished if necessary for life. He said that Ali had betrayed the mandate as a judge.

“In my opinion, this should be punished, to be sentenced to life for betraying the mandate hidden in bed,” he said.

In addition, Boyamin appreciated the implementation of the office of the attorney general. Boyamin said that the office of the attorney general could follow the suitcase with the money at the house of judge Ali.

“The office of the attorney general when he was able to sniff was shocked, because now the great time was able to sniff far from Jakarta and then see you under the bed and that it seemed to have known that the suitcase with money in the house, I appreciated that the ago could follow and trace,” Boyamin said.

Ago IDR 5.5 billion under the mattress judge

The office of the attorney -general grabbed RP 5.5 billion in money from the house of judge Ali Muhtarom, a suspect in the alleged bribery case of alleged corruption with regard to cooking oil. The money consists of 36 pieces of USD 100 or American dollars.

The head of the office of the attorney general Harli Siregar said the money was found by researchers while performing a search in Ali’s house in Jpara, Central Java. The search was performed on Sunday (4/13) or when Ali was called a suspect.

“It was from April 13, 2025 and from the house there were 3,600 sheets or 36 blocks in foreign currencies or 36 blocks with USD 100,” Harli said reporters at the office of the attorney general, South Jakarta, Wednesday (24/4).

“So if we have a reach of RP 5.5 billion in the reach, calculate or the equalization,” he explained.

The proof of the money has now been deposited by the researcher on the perception account at the BRI Bank. While the investigation is still going on.

“In connection with this, I also have to say that researchers have set up the confiscated results in other care accounts at Bri Bank,” said Harli.

The evidence was found by the office of the attorney general from under the bed in one of Ali’s house spaces. The money is stored in a suitcase wrapped in white jute bag.

Harli did not answer clearly to the question of the presence or absence of Ali’s intention to hide the billions of money. He said he still had to confirm it.

“Maybe it was held there. But because the person involved was already here (at the office of the attorney general) at that time, there was a family there.

Similarly, about the origin of the RP 5.5 billion, it is not yet known whether it is the result of bribery related to the case of the vicious release of migor raw materials or not.

“Yes, that is what is still being investigated. Even if that is what we say that all the deprivation of these assets is in the context of repairing losses in this case, at least associated whether it is a tool or the result of crime,” Harli said.

“Is it a current that has not been used or indeed from the savings, perhaps from the others we don’t know yet,” he added.

As is known, Ali Muhtarom is one of the eight suspects of the bribery scandal of the release of the company defendant in the raw palm oil (CPO) export corruption or the raw material for cooking oil. Ali is said to have received around RP. 5 billion.

The money was received by Ali and South Jakarta District Court chairman Muhammad Arif Nuryanta (MAN), who was then the deputy chairman of the Central Jakarta court. Arif has already been called a suspect and held by the public prosecutor.

Arif is known as a figure who has asked a bribery of RP 60 billion to regulate the judgment of the stabbing for the Migor case of the suspect. Subsequently divided into the panel of judges who deal with the corruption case with migor raw materials export.

In addition to Ali, the panel consisted of judges who the freelance sentence from Djuyamto as the most important judge and Agam Syarif Baharudin as a director. All three know the purpose of receiving the money, so that the case is terminated at Conslag -Alias ​​has been sentenced to separate.

The following is a list of suspects in a bribery case of the suspect Corporation Migor:

1. Muhammad Arif Nuryanto (MAN) as chairman of the district court in South Jakarta (South Jakarta District Court)
2. Djuyamto (DJU) as chairman of the jury
3. Agam Syarif Baharudin (ASB) as a member of the Panel of Judges
4. Ali Muhtarom (AM) as a member of the jury
5. Wahyu Gunawan (WG) as a registrar
6. Marcella Santoso (MS) as a lawyer
7. Ariyanto Bakri (AR) as a lawyer
8. Muhammad Syafei (MSY) as head of social security and license Wilmar Group

(WHN/IDN)